Scale AI
Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Public Sector
We captured this posting once, on 2026-08-05, and did not track it afterwards — so we cannot tell you whether it is still open.
- Employer
- Scale AI
- Location
- Austin, TX · Honolulu, HI · St Louis, MO · Washington, DC
- Seniority
- Mid level
- Experience asked for
- 5+ years
- Pay band
- $138K – $219K
When we saw it
- Posted 2026-08-01 — the date the employer published it
- Archived 2026-08-05 — when we saved this copy
Found via LinkedIn — US keyword pulls.
Skills the posting named
From the posting
At Scale, we build the AI systems behind some of the country's most important decisions. On the Public Sector Engineering team, you'll embed directly with U.S. government customers, including the Army, Air Force, Joint commands and Intelligence Community, to build and deploy AI applications that support their most critical missions. This is a hybrid customer-facing engineering role. You'll sit with the people whose problems you're solving, own delivery from first prototype to production, and ship software that customers adopt and rely on in the field. Model performance matters, timelines are urgent, and ambiguity is the norm. Your work directly shapes what Scale's platform can do for the public sector. What You'll Do Embed with government customers to understand their mission, scope the problem, and turn it into working software. …
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