Staff Technical Product Manager, Scale AI
2-3 days a week in office
Training and validation data for AI applications
Be an early applicant
Training and validation data for AI applications
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate brings together a strong engineering or ML background, entrepreneurial drive, the eagerness to be a hands-on builder, and the ability to get in front of senior technical and government stakeholders to drive mission-critical outcomes
- Builder mentality: you’re energized by going from zero to one, not by managing from a distance
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, ML engineering, or a deeply technical product role where you were hands-on with what shipped
- Technical fluency: software engineering or ML background (master’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience). Experience training or evaluating models is a plus
- Deep intellectual curiosity about AI systems — you read papers, dig into technical details, and have strong opinions about how things should be built
- Enough customer instinct to know what matters, but your default mode is building, not selling
- Bias for action and comfort wearing multiple hats in fast-moving environments
- Willingness to travel to allied partner nations as needed
What the job involves
- This is a defense role. We’re looking for a Staff Technical Product Manager to own critical product areas within Scale’s Global Defense business, serving allied defense and national security customers
- You’ll be a critical builder, shaping and developing Scale’s global defense products, while being the primary technical expert to our global customers
- Own the product roadmap and execution for one or more product areas within Global Defense, driving what gets built and how it ships
- Be hands-on: write specs, prototype solutions, dig into technical architecture with engineers, and make product calls grounded in real technical understanding
- Design and ship AI-powered products and tooling for defense and national security workflows, working side-by-side with engineering and ML teams
- Use customer context to inform what you build — understand allied defense workflows deeply enough to make opinionated product decisions, not just relay requirements
- Navigate the unique constraints of defense product development across allied nations — classification environments, accreditation processes, air-gapped deployments — or be ready to learn these fast
- Operate like a founding team member: wear multiple hats, move fast, unblock yourself, and drive outcomes across engineering, operations, and go-to-market
Our take
When training AI models, lack of access to large scale, high quality, labelled data is often the barrier preventing machine learning teams from building something great. In fact, labelled data is even more essential than the algorithms themselves. Scale AI is solving this by providing easy access through developer APIs to a huge variety of labelled data sets covering a large range of areas within computer vision and natural language processing.
It seems that almost every company now is offering artificial intelligence enabled products to automate every aspect of our lives. So, by positioning themselves as the go-to source for high quality tagged data, Scale AI is in an excellent position as the AI sector continues it's exponential growth.
With innovative AI projects across a range of sectors including retail, energy, and healthcare, Scale AI is now a leader in the industry alongside OpenAI. It continues to forge partnerships with fintech tools and software engine developers such as Brex and Luminar to continue its evolution of digital markets.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2024
$1bn
SERIES F
Apr 2021
$325m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.6bn
Company benefits
- Health & Wellbeing: Our holistic approach to supporting Scaliens includes comprehensive health coverage, dental and vision insurance, mental healthcare services, and more. PTO policies and accommodating schedules ensure you’ll get time off when you need it to relax and recharge. Note that our offerings may vary by region as we strive to respond to the unique needs of Scaliens around the globe.
- Personal & Career Growth: Continuously learn and grow through annual learning & development stipend, attending leadership breakfasts, manager training, speaker series, and joining an ERG.
- Building Scale Community: We welcome guests to our offices, and you can expect to see Scalien families and friends around. Join local happy hours, and accept invites to game nights, book clubs, and many other employee-led community events.
- Parental Support: Balancing work and family is essential, and Scale understands the importance of having adequate leave policies in place to promote a healthy home and work life.
Company HQ
Rincon Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Alexandr Wang
(Founder & CEO)Previously, Alexandr was an Algorithm Developer at Hudson River Trading, a Tech Lead and Quora and a Software Engineer at Addepar.
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