Software Engineer, Public Sector - New Grad

Scale AI
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 124,000 - 162,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Written communication","Verbal communication","Problem-solving","Learning agility"]

Build mission-facing AI systems that ingest, process, and help operators leverage federal datasets in contested environments. As a New Grad, you’ll ship features, work directly with government stakeholders, and iterate quickly—covering agent safety guardrails, RAG and data retrieval, orchestration for asynchronous agent fleets, anomaly detection, auditing interfaces, and secure deployment in air-gapped and cloud-native settings.

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Scale AI
Scale AI
18 hours ago

Software Engineer, Public Sector - New Grad

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Job Summary

Build mission-facing AI systems that ingest, process, and help operators leverage federal datasets in contested environments. As a New Grad, you’ll ship features, work directly with government stakeholders, and iterate quickly—covering agent safety guardrails, RAG and data retrieval, orchestration for asynchronous agent fleets, anomaly detection, auditing interfaces, and secure deployment in air-gapped and cloud-native settings.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Graduate level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own mission-facing work from day one, shipping features for public sector stakeholders and iterating quickly.
  • •Develop systems to ingest and process federal datasets that support real-time decision-making.
  • •Build multi-layer guardrails for agent safety and predictability in high-stakes federal environments.
  • •Create data retrieval and orchestration systems for agents, including RAG pipelines and fleets of asynchronous agents.
  • •Develop evaluation, monitoring, and auditing tooling, including alerting on anomalies and interfaces explaining how decisions are reached.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 124,000 - 162,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionRetirement BenefitsLearning BudgetPaid LeaveCommuter Benefits

Key Requirements

  • •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).
  • •Product engineering experience building web apps full-stack, integrating APIs/services, and iterating based on user feedback.
  • •Previous Product/Software Engineering internship experience.
  • •Track record of shipping high-quality products and features at scale.
  • •Experience building systems that process large volumes of data, including familiarity with Python, TypeScript, React, and/or MongoDB.
Experience:Public sectorGovernmentArtificial intelligenceAgentic systems
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CommunicationWritten communicationVerbal communicationProblem-solvingLearning agility
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonTypeScriptReactMongoDBAWSAzureGCPDockerKubernetes

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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