Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Public Sector

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

At Scale, we build the AI systems behind some of the country's most important decisions. On the Public Sector Engineering team, you'll embed directly with U.S. government customers, including the Army, Air Force, Joint commands and Intelligence Community, to build and deploy AI applications that support their most critical missions.

What it asks for · 3

• Ability to operate independently in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and make sound trade-offs under pressure.
• Experience building or deploying systems powered by LLMs or generative models.
• Familiarity with Node and React, Kubernetes and Docker, and Terraform.

Also a plus

• Experience building or deploying systems powered by LLMs or generative models.
• Familiarity with Node and React, Kubernetes and Docker, and Terraform.
• Data engineering background covering ETL pipelines, data modeling, and data governance.

What the job covers

• Embed with government customers to understand their mission, scope the problem, and turn it into working software.
• Own delivery end-to-end: design, build, deploy, and maintain solutions at customer sites, from prototype to stable production.
• Build robust backend systems and data integrations that connect customer environments to Scale's platform and back.
• Partner with product and engineering to feed field signals back into the roadmap, so the patterns you build once become capabilities the whole team can reuse.
• Serve as the technical point of contact for customer stakeholders, guiding adoption and maximizing mission impact.

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• customers7×
• build5×
• engineering5×
• data4×
• mission3×
• platform3×
• production3×
• software3×
• systems3×
• travel3×
• back2×
• customer-facing2×
• delivery2×
• deploy2×
• directly2×
• embed2×

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