# Engineering Manager, Defense

**Company**: Scale AI
**Location**: Doha, Qatar
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112629176

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## Description

## Job Overview

We are looking for a highly technical and strategic Senior Manager, Defense Engineering to lead our engineering efforts across the Middle East region, specifically supporting defense-related projects.

## Responsibilities

- Manage and grow the engineering team in the region, driving technical delivery across defense and public sector engagements

- Design, build, and optimize backend services for advanced AI-driven applications, with a strong focus on AI agents, evaluation tooling, and automation

- Lead full stack engineering efforts end-to-end,from system design and architecture through to debugging, testing, and production deployment

- Serve as the senior technical authority on defense-related projects, applying domain knowledge to ensure solutions meet mission-critical standards and security requirements

- Architect and deploy AI agent frameworks and API integrations tailored to defense and government workflows

- Work comfortably cross-functionally across internal engineering teams and external defense and government clients

- Own the full product lifecycle from conceptualization through production, ensuring high-velocity delivery without sacrificing quality

- Deliver experiments and MVPs at a high velocity and level of quality to drive engagement with defense customers

- Influence the culture, values, and processes of a growing engineering team in the region

- Inspire and mentor engineers, fostering a technically excellent and mission-driven team environment

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new product features and experiences tailored to defense requirements

## Requirements

- 10+ years of relevant software engineering experience, with a strong emphasis on backend systems and full stack development

- 5+ years of experience managing and leading engineering teams, with a proven track record of developing high-performing teams in complex, mission-driven environments

- Demonstrated domain knowledge in the defense sector,understanding of defense operations, national security priorities, and the regulatory and security requirements unique to defense

- Deep expertise in AI and machine learning, specifically with AI agents, LLM-powered applications, and agentic frameworks

- Hands-on experience designing, building, and integrating APIs in production environments (cloud and on-premises), including experience with AI/ML APIs and third-party defense or government platform integrations

- Full stack engineering proficiency,comfortable across the entire stack including backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and frontend delivery

- Proven success leading, managing, and developing high-performing Engineering teams at scale

- Expertise in identifying product engagement patterns and trends for large-scale applications, ideally in government or defense contexts

- Track record of shipping high-quality products and features at scale in fast-paced, high-stakes environments

- Ability to turn complex defense business and mission requirements into pragmatic, scalable engineering solutions

- Excellent problem-solving skills, and ability to work independently and as part of a cross-functional, international team

- Experience working in or with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region is strongly preferred; Arabic language skills a plus

## Skills

### Required
- AI agents
- LLM-powered applications
- agentic frameworks
- backend systems
- full stack development
- API integrations
- machine learning
- defense operations
- national security priorities

### Nice to have
- Arabic language skills
- experience working in or with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region

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