Strategic Projects Lead, Public Sector - Cyber

Scale AI
Washington
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 139,200 - 174,000 annuallyFunction: Government & Public AdministrationExperience: 2-3 yearsSkills: ["Project management","Stakeholder management","Collaboration","Data-driven decision-making","Comfort with ambiguity"]

Lead high-impact projects for the Public Sector team, driving revenue and experimentation through world-class test and evaluation and training data for large language models. Build and run data labeling pipelines, define operating processes for expert workforce execution, and scope customer engagements with ML and Go-to-Market teams via taxonomy design and technical feasibility validation. Own program viability by managing project COGS and using analytics to remove bottlenecks and improve pipeline performance.

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Strategic Projects Lead, Public Sector - Cyber

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Job Summary

Lead high-impact projects for the Public Sector team, driving revenue and experimentation through world-class test and evaluation and training data for large language models. Build and run data labeling pipelines, define operating processes for expert workforce execution, and scope customer engagements with ML and Go-to-Market teams via taxonomy design and technical feasibility validation. Own program viability by managing project COGS and using analytics to remove bottlenecks and improve pipeline performance.
Location: Washington
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Government & Public Administration
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Develop and maintain operating infrastructure for efficient, scalable, high-quality data labeling pipelines.
  • •Own day-to-day progress for priority data production pipelines to keep projects moving efficiently.
  • •Partner with Machine Learning and Go-to-Market teams to scope customer engagements using taxonomy design and technical feasibility validation.
  • •Influence cross-org collaboration on human data strategy to ensure data quality, scalability, and long-term platform leverage.
  • •Own program financial health by managing project-level COGS through workforce planning, tooling decisions, and process optimization.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 139,200 - 174,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionRetirement BenefitsLearning BudgetPaid LeaveCommuter Benefits

Key Requirements

  • •Active Top Secret security clearance.
  • •2-3 years of experience in product development, data science, or operations.
  • •Proven project management success and comfort working in ambiguity.
  • •Ability to analyze complex operational data, build queries, and identify trends to optimize processes.
  • •Technical aptitude to produce data for post-training methods such as SFT and RLHF/RLVR.
Experience:2-3 yearsProduct developmentData scienceOperations
Skills:Project managementStakeholder managementCollaborationData-driven decision-makingComfort with ambiguity
Languages:English
Tech Stack:Data labeling pipelinesTaxonomy designFeasibility validationSFTRLHFRLVRPrompt engineeringData visualizationAnalyticsQueriesScriptsHybrid data

Eligibility

Security Clearance:Top Secret

Company Brief

Scale AI
Provides data labeling, annotation, and infrastructure services to accelerate machine learning and AI development. Supplies high-quality training data, tooling, and APIs for customers in autonomous vehicles, mapping, robotics, and enterprise AI applications.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2016
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