Engineering Manager, Scale AI
Public Sector
$188-311k
4 days a week in office
Training and validation data for AI applications
Open for applications
Training and validation data for AI applications
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$188-311k
4 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To accelerate the development of AI applications.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of full-time engineering experience, post-graduation
- 2+ years of prior engineering management or equivalent experience and has managed an engineering team
- Have extensive experience in software development
- Experience scaling products at hyper-growth startups
- Excitement to work with AI technologies and their applications for the public sector
- Extremely strong track record as an individual contributor
- Show a track record of mentoring and leading teams in successful projects
- Possess excellent communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to translate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
Desirable
- TS/SCI Clearance
- Deep technical knowledge of Software Development, willing to get deep into the weeds to solve problems alongside the team
- Have experience with AI platforms and technologies, including generative models and LLMs
- Have previous experience in government or government facing technology roles
- Experience with cloud-native technologies, full stack development, data engineering, and ml ops infrastructure
What the job involves
- This role is ideal for someone who thrives in technical environments, enjoys managing teams while staying close to the code, and wants to work on meaningful problems that impact real world operations across the U.S. government. You’ll play a critical role in delivering backend systems, distributed platforms, and ML tooling used by our public sector partners—all while helping your team grow and execute
- You’ll split your time between technical planning and execution (50%) and people management and team development (50%), leading a team of 6-8 engineers. You’ll work cross-functionally with product, security, and customer-facing teams to ensure our engineering efforts meet complex federal compliance, security, and performance needs
- 50% Software engineering - technical product planning, and coding
- 50% Managing a growing team
- Recruit a high-performing engineering team
- Drive engineering productivity. Provide guidance, mentorship, and technical leadership to a team of engineers working on Generative AI projects
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design, and execute strategic roadmap
- Navigate and deliver outcomes while navigating through complex public sector compliance requirements and frameworks
- Design and implement scalable backend systems for Federal customers, leveraging Scale's modern and cloud-native AI infrastructure
- Develop distributed systems, data-intensive applications, and machine learning infrastructure to enable real impact for mission owners
- Build robust and reliable backend systems that can serve as standalone products, empowering customers to accelerate their own AI ambitions
- Participate actively in customer engagements, working closely with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver innovative solutions
- Contribute to the platform roadmap and product strategy for Scale AI's Federal business, playing a key role in shaping the future direction of our offerings
- Have or ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance
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. 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, Dental & Vision Coverage: Our health plans give you the flexibility to select the right coverage for you and eligible family members through a variety of plan options
- Easy to use 401(K): Plan and invest for the future with a 401(k) via Guideline. Scale’s 401(k) plan provides you an opportunity to defer compensation for your long-term savings
- Wellness Fund: We care about the physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing of all Scaliens. Our $100/month wellness stipend can be used for gym memberships, acupuncture, meditation apps, and so much more
- Virtual Social Activities: Being remote has not stopped us from hosting fun virtual events. From trivia night to candle making, we ensure employees are fostering connections & building strong relationships
- Learning & Development: We know how important career growth is for Scaliens, so we offer a $500/year L&D stipend to help support continued development throughout your journey
- Flexible Work Hours: Flexible hours allow you to work when you are most productive. You can work with your manager to best plan your daily work schedule
- Generous Paid Time Off: Enjoy time to travel or plan a staycation. We encourage employees to take time off to recharge and prevent burnout. We have a flexible PTO policy where each employee is afforded the flexibility to take planned time-off as needed
- Commuter Benefits: Set aside pre-tax dollars to use on qualified transportation expenses to help ease your commute
- Parental Leave: 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
Alexander Wang
(CEO)Dropped out of a bachelors degree at MiT in Computer Science and Mathematics. Previously worked for 2 years as a Software Engineer and Algorithm Developer in the finance industry and 2 years as a Tech Lead at Quora. Youngest founder funded by Accel as a teenager.
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