Scale’s rapidly growing International Public Sector team is focused on using AI to address critical challenges facing the public sector around the world. Our core work consists of:
- Creating custom AI applications that will impact millions of citizens
- Generating high-quality training data for national LLMs
- Upskilling and advisory services to spread the impact of AI
We are hiring multiple Machine Learning Engineers who will leverage the latest research to design, train, deploy, and evaluate computer vision and/or language models to power the custom applications we build for our public sector clients.
At Scale, we’re not just building AI solutions—we’re enabling the public sector to transform their operations and better serve citizens through cutting-edge technology. If you’re ready to shape the future of AI in the public sector and be a founding member of our team, we’d love to hear from you.
You will:
- Partner with public sector counterparts to deeply understand their challenges
- Apply the latest research as you design custom models or chains of models
- Collaborate closely with our data annotation teams to create high-quality training datasets
- Train, optimize, and deploy models into challenging production environments
- Develop and maintain robust evaluation systems
- Participate in customer engagements, including occasional travel (approximately one week per quarter)
- Contribute to the scaling of AI capabilities in the public sector through hands-on knowledge sharing
Ideally, you’d have:
- 5+ years of computer vision and/or language model training, deployment, evaluation, and maintenance experience in a production environment
- Master’s or equivalent work experience
- Software engineering experience with demonstrated proficiency in Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, C++ or similar
Nice to haves:
- Experience working at a startup
- Experience dealing with large-scale AI problems
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to operate in a cross-functional team environment
- Proficiency in Arabic (if focused on language models)
- Published research in areas of machine learning at significant conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, EMNLP, CVPR, etc.) and/or journals.
PLEASE NOTE: Our policy requires a 90-day waiting period before reconsidering candidates for the same role. This allows us to ensure a fair and thorough evaluation of all applicants.
About Us:
At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions. Our products provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. We work closely with industry leaders like Meta, Cisco, DLA Piper, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force. We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.
We believe that everyone should be able to bring their whole selves to work, which is why we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace. 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. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation in the application or recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected]. Please see the United States Department of Labor's Know Your Rights poster for additional information.
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