Requirements

• 7+ years of engineering experience, with a multi-year track record owning AI/ML systems in production
• Experience judging the quality of training data, selecting the right adaptation method for a given model, evaluating fine-tuning results, and balancing serving cost, latency, and quality trade-offs
• Experience owning an AI-powered product end to end, including direct involvement in the AI's behaviour rather than implementing ML work scoped by another team
• A track record of establishing standards that outlived the projects they were built for, such as an evaluation methodology, an MLOps practice, or an architectural pattern
• Comfort operating with executive-level clients and leadership, including defending a technical position under pressure
• Deep experience with regulated, sovereign, or on-premise AI deployment, including hallucination mitigation and auditability

What you'll be doing

• 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 safety or data integrity
• Build reusable AI capabilities, such as production-ready agent implementations built on proven architectures, fine-tuned models, or evaluation methodologies, that other engineers and clients can build on
• Advise on which new AI developments are worth adopting, and help set the technical roadmap for the domain
• Act as the senior technical partner to client leadership on AI strategy
• Coach Senior Applied AI Engineers, delegate ownership of technical domains, and build systems and practices that enable multiple teams to deliver safer AI
• Contribute to recruiting and representing Scale's AI work externally

Perks and Benefits

• Location, travel, and vetting requirements vary by assignment
• Some UK assignments require BPSS screening and may require SC or DV clearance
• About Us: At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions
• We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications
• We are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace