Staff Full Stack Software Engineer, Scale AI
Gen AI
$252-315k
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
$252-315k
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
- 7+ years of full-time engineering experience, post-graduation, with a proven track record of operating as a Tech Lead, Architect, or Principal Engineer
- Track record of shipping high-quality products and features at scale
- Experience tinkering with or productizing LLMs, vector databases, and the other latest AI technologies
- Proficient in Javascript/Typescript, and SQL
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
What the job involves
- This is a horizontal, high-impact L6 Staff Fullstack Engineer & Architect position reporting directly to the Director of Contributor Engineering
- Instead of being tied to a single domain, your scope is spread across all Contributor (CB) teams (including Allocation, Growth, Trust & Safety, Pay, and Allocations)
- Together, these teams power Scale’s AI data operations - from building high-impact datasets that push the boundaries of LLM capabilities, to optimizing contributor onboarding and incentives, to safeguarding data integrity through advanced trust, safety, and security measures
- They work at the intersection of ML, operations, and analytics to ensure we deliver the highest-quality data at scale
- You will act as an organizational architect and tech lead, dynamically embedding yourself into the highest-priority projects across the org to guarantee execution, unblock teams, and successfully ship mission-critical initiatives
- Concurrently, you will lead the long-term technical evolution of our stack, transforming the core architecture to ensure it is highly sustainable, scalable, and fundamentally AI-native
- Deploy flexibly into critical, fast-moving product initiatives across the CB organization
- Lead the architectural overhaul of our platform infrastructure, making it highly sustainable, robust, and optimized for deep integration with LLMs and foundation models
- Lead architecture decisions for scalability, reliability, and performance
- Mentor and uplevel engineers across the team
- Partner with product and leadership to shape roadmap and priorities
- Own large, ambiguous problem spaces end-to-end
- Work across backend, frontend, and ML systems
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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