Software Engineering Manager, Public Sector

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

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

Nice-to-Haves

• 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.

Compensation and Benefits

Compensation packages at Scale for eligible roles include base salary, equity, and benefits.

Base salary ranges:

• San Francisco, CA and New York, NY: $216000–$270000
• Washington, DC: $194400–$243000
• St. Louis, MO: $162400–$203000

Employees in eligible roles are also granted equity. Benefits include comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, a learning and development stipend, generous PTO, and potentially a commuter stipend.