Staff Software Engineer, Scale AI
Platform
$248.4-310.5k
+ Equity
Training and validation data for AI applications
Be an early applicant
Training and validation data for AI applications
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$248.4-310.5k
+ Equity
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 specialities in back-end systems
- Extensive experience in software development and a deep understanding of distributed systems and public cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
- Demonstrated a track record of independent ownership and leadership across successful multi-team 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 containerization & deployment technologies like Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, etc
- Experience with orchestration platforms, such as Temporal and AWS Step Functions
- Experience with NoSQL document databases (MongoDB) and structured databases (Postgres)
- Strong knowledge of software engineering best practices and CI/CD tooling (CircleCI, ArgoCD)
Desirable
- Experience with data warehouses (Snowflake, Firebolt) and data pipeline/ETL tools (Dagster, dbt)
- Experience scaling products at hyper-growth startups
- Excitement to work with AI technologies
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer, you will define and drive both the architectural roadmap and implementation of core platforms and software systems
- You will be responsible for providing high-level vision and driving adoption across the engineering org for orchestration, data abstraction, data pipelines, identity & access management, and underlying cloud infrastructure
- 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
- Architectural Vision: You will drive the design and implementation of foundational systems, acting as a bridge between high-level business goals and technical goals
- Cross-Functional Leadership: You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and drive adoption of the next generation of features for our AI data infrastructure
- Technical Ownership: You are responsible for proactively identifying and driving opportunities for organizational growth, driving improvements in programming practices, and upgrading the tools that define our development lifecycle
- Technical Mentorship: You will serve as a subject matter expert, presenting technical information to stakeholders and providing the guidance to elevate the engineering culture across the company
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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Insights
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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