Software Engineering Manager, Public Sector

Job Summary

Scale AI’s Public Sector business is growing quickly as government agencies adopt AI to support critical national security, defense, and public sector missions. We're looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead a team of software engineers building core products and infrastructure for these customers.

About the Role

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Collaborate 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.

Requirements

• Must be able to commute to office three times per week
• Have or ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-time engineering experience, post-graduation
• 2+ years of prior engineering management or equivalent experience and has managed an engineering team
• 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
• Strong track record as an individual contributor
• Show a track record of mentoring and leading teams in successful projects
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to translate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Skills

• Deep technical knowledge of Software Development, willing to get deep into the weeds to solve problems alongside the team
• Experience with AI platforms and technologies, including generative models and LLMs
• Previous experience in government or government facing technology roles
• Experience with cloud-native technologies, full stack development, data engineering, and ml ops infrastructure

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
• Roth retirement benefits
• A learning and development stipend
• Generous PTO
• Additional benefits such as a commuter stipend

Pay Information

• Base salary range for this full-time position in San Francisco, New York: $216,000—$270,000 USD
• Base salary range for this full-time position in Washington DC: $194,400—$243,000 USD
• Base salary range for this full-time position in St Louis: $162,400—$203,000 USD

Company Culture

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability status, gender identity or Veteran status. We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.