Staff Software Engineer, Scale AI
AI Developer Tooling
$248.4-310.5k
Training and validation data for AI applications
Job no longer available
Training and validation data for AI applications
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$248.4-310.5k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of full-time engineering experience, post-graduation, with experience in build, test, or CI/CD systems
- Extensive experience defining and evangelizing best-practices for AI development tools, including cost guardrails, security frameworks, and hosting knowledge-sharing sessions, among others
- Extensive experience in software development and a deep understanding of distributed systems and public cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
- Experience configuring, testing, and enabling MCP servers, AI agents, and other associated systems
- Show a track record of independent ownership of successful engineering projects
- Possess excellent communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to translate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Experience working fluently with standard infrastructure, containerization, and deployment technologies like Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, etc
- Experience with modern web frameworks like NodeJS, NextJS, etc
- Strong knowledge of software engineering best practices and CI/CD tooling (CircleCI, Helm, ArgoCD)
Desirable
- Experience scaling products at hyper-growth startups
- Experience with modern build systems like Bazel, Buck, Pants, etc
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
- Drive the architecture, design, and implementation of our local development process, build, test, continuous integration, and continuous delivery systems, working closely with stakeholders and internal customers to understand and refine requirements
- Directly mentor software engineers ranging from new grads to experienced engineers
- Proactively identify opportunities and drive improvements to software development practices, processes, tools, and languages
- Present technical information to teams and stakeholders, providing guidance and insight on development processes and technologies
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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