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Staff Software Engineer, AI Developer Tooling

Scale AI · San Francisco, CA; New York, NY

Posted Nov 5, 2026

Est. total comp~$201K–$317K

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Software is eating the world, but AI is eating software. We live in unprecedented times – AI has the potential to exponentially augment human intelligence. Every person will have a personal tutor, coach, assistant, personal shopper, travel guide, and therapist throughout life. As the world adjusts to this new reality, leading platform companies are scrambling to build LLMs at billion scale, while large enterprises figure out how to add it to their products.

At Scale, our products include the Generative AI Data Engine, SGP, Donovan, and others that power the most advanced LLMs and generative models in the world through world-class RLHF, human data generation, model evaluation, safety, and alignment. The data we are producing is some of the most important work for how humanity will interact with AI.

At the foundation of these products is the Platform Engineering team. In this role, you will redefine how engineers develop, build, test, and deploy software at Scale using AI development tools in addition to traditional practices. You’ll also get widespread exposure to the forefront of the AI race as Scale sees it in enterprises, startups, governments, and large tech companies.

You will:

Define next-generation AI development tooling and frameworks using products like Cursor, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and MS Copilot, as well as in-house custom-built solutions. …

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Required 6 items

  • 8y

Experience: 8+ years of experience in engineering

Skills and tools: CI/CD, AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes

Preferred 1 item

Skills and tools: Node.js

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