Staff Applied AI Engineer

About the role Scale's Global Public Sector team is focused on using AI to address critical challenges facing the public sector around the world. As a Staff Applied AI Engineer, you'll raise the bar for how AI gets built, governed, and evaluated across the team. You'll define standards that other engineers adopt, such as evaluation methodologies for agents and MLOps practices, while acting as the senior technical voice for the most sensitive AI decisions our clients face. What you'll do - Define standards for responsible AI, model governance, and production MLOps that get adopted broadly across the Global Public Sector team - Build or validate the highest-risk parts of strategic AI systems and use those systems to establish standards other teams can adopt. - Architect AI systems designed to prevent systemic failure, and lead the resolution of the most severe incidents tied to model