Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise GenAI
at Scale AI · 501-1000 employees
Equity · $14.3B · Jun 2025
- Seniority
- Staff Principal
- Location
- San Francisco, CA; New York, NY
- Posted
- 5d ago
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at Scale AI · 501-1000 employees
Scale AI provides labeled training data and annotation for ML and LLMs across text, audio, images, video and lidar, combining software, human-in-the-loop annotators, APIs and dataset-management platform Nucleus.
<p>Scale GP (Scale Generative AI Platform) is an enterprise-grade Generative AI platform that provides APIs for knowledge retrieval, inference, evaluation, and more. We are looking for a strong engineer to join our team and help us build and scale our product in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of software engineering principles and practices, as well as experience with large-scale distributed systems. You will be responsible for owning large new areas within our product, working across backend, frontend, and interacting with LLMs and ML models. You will solve hard engineering problems in scalability and reliability.</p> <p><strong>You will:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Own large new areas within our product</li> <li>Work across backend, frontend, and interacting with LLMs and ML models</li> <li>Deliver experiments at a high velocity and level of quality to engage our customers</li> <li>Work across the entire product lifecycle from conceptualization through production</li> <li>Be able, and willing, to multi-task and learn new technologies quickly</li> </ul> <p><strong>Ideally you'd have:</strong></p> <ul> <li>7+ years of full-time engineering experience, post-graduation</li> <li>Experience scaling products at hyper growth startups</li> <li>Experience tinkering with or productizing LLMs, vector databases, and the other latest AI technologies</li> <li>Proficient in Python or Javascript/Typescript, and SQL</li> <li>Experience with Kubernetes</li> <li>Experience with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)</li> </ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p><em>Compensation packages at Scale for eligible roles include base salary, equity, and benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position and may be inclusive of several career levels at Scale; it will be determined during the interview process based on work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, qualifications, interview performance, and relevant education or training. Scale employees in eligible roles are also granted equity based compensation, subject to Board of Director approval. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process, and confirm whether the hired role will be eligible for equity grant. You'll also receive benefits including, but not limited to: comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, a learning and development stipend, and generous PTO. Additionally, this role may be eligible for additional benefits such as a commuter stipend.</em></p></div><div class="title">Please reference the job posting's subtitle for where this position will be located. For pay transparency purposes, the base salary range for this full-time position in the locations of San Francisco, New York, Seattle is:</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$252,000</span><span class="divider">—</span><span>$315,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong><em>PLEASE NOTE: </em></strong><em>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.</em></p> <p><strong>About Us:</strong></p> <p><em>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, </em><em>Ernst</em><em> </em><em>&</em><em> Young, 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.</em></p> <p><em>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. </em></p> <p><em>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 accommodations@scale.com. 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