Software Engineer, Public Sector - New Grad
Scale AI · San Francisco, CA
Est. total comp~$201K–$317KFrom the posting
At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions. For 10 years, Scale has provided the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models, and has helped enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. We work closely with industry leaders like Meta, Ernst & Young, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force.
Public Sector engineers build the core product including the systems required to ingest and process federal datasets that support real-time decision-making in contested environments. As a New Grad Software Engineer on this team, you will own meaningful, mission-facing work from day one: shipping features, sitting with the government stakeholders who use them, and iterating fast.
Example Projects
Build multi-layered guardrails that keep agents safe and predictable in high-stakes federal environments
Optimize data retrieval for agents, including RAG pipelines over large, heterogeneous federal datasets
Build orchestration for fleets of asynchronous agents running long-horizon tasks
Develop systems that automatically alert users to deviations and anomalies in incoming data
Create interfaces that illustrate how an agent reached a decision, so operators can audit and trust its output …
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Required 5 items
Education: Bachelor's degree
Skills and tools: Python, TypeScript, Statistics, React
Preferred 4 items
Skills and tools: AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker
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