Software Engineer (Public Sector, New Grad)

Join Scale AI as a New Grad Software Engineer in the Public Sector. You will work on meaningful projects that support real-time decision-making in contested environments. Your responsibilities will include building multi-layered guardrails, optimizing data retrieval, developing systems for anomaly detection, and creating user interfaces. You will also have the opportunity to deploy applications into secure government environments. Benefits include comprehensive health coverage, personal and career growth opportunities, and parental support.

Participer activement à la conception, au développement et à la mise en œuvre de systèmes logiciels pour le traitement de grandes quantités de données fédérales.

Responsibilities

• Collaborer avec les parties prenantes gouvernementales pour comprendre leurs besoins et itérer rapidement sur les fonctionnalités.
• Contribuer à l'optimisation des pipelines de récupération de données et à la construction d'infrastructures ML pour rendre les sources de données accessibles.
• Track record of shipping high-quality products and features at scale

Requirements

• Strong written and verbal communication — you will work directly with government stakeholders and must be able to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Comfort with ambiguity and evolving requirements, and a willingness to learn new domains quickly

Previous Product/Software Engineering internship experience

• A graduation date in Fall 2026 or Spring 2027 with a Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field (Computer Science, EECS, Computer Engineering, Statistics)
• Experience building systems that process large volumes of data
• Product engineering experience such as building web apps full-stack, integrating with relevant APIs and services, talking to users, figuring out 'what' to build and then iterating

Experience with Python, Typescript, React, and/or MongoDB

• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), containerization (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, evaluations, or agentic systems — whether from internships, research, or personal projects
• Exposure to ETL, data modeling, data warehousing, or data governance
• Prior experience with, or demonstrated interest in, national security, defense, or civil government technology

Preferred

• Open source contributions or a portfolio of shipped side projects

Pay

USD 124,000 - 162,000