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title: 'Senior Applied AI Engineer at Scale AI'
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# Senior Applied AI Engineer at Scale AI

- **Company:** Scale AI
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Posted:** 2026-11-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/scaleai/jobs/4751081005

## Job description

## 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 Senior Applied AI Engineer, you'll own the AI behaviour of production systems our clients depend on, including the agents, evaluations, and backend integration behind them. You'll lead delivery for your workstream and act as the technical point of contact for clients on how their AI performs on live data.

## What you'll do

- Own the AI layer of production systems for public sector clients, including agents, model integration, and the backend services they run on
- Build production agents from established architectural patterns, with reliable tool calling, guardrails, and observability
- Select and adapt established evaluation methods, and design new evaluations for client-specific risks
- Apply context engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, model adaptation, or inference optimisation
- Investigate regressions in the systems you own, lead root-cause analysis, and implement preventative changes
- Lead project planning for your workstream and manage client expectations on scope, risk, and delivery
- Codify recurring client work into reusable tooling, evaluation components, or guidance that other engineers adopt
- Mentor engineers through code review, pairing, and delegated ownership

## What we look for

- Backend engineering experience, with a track record of taking AI/ML systems into production and keeping them reliable
- Ownership of the AI behaviour of a production system end to end, rather than delivering a component scoped by another team
- Hands-on evaluation design that ties model behaviour to real-world outcomes, used to catch regressions
- Comfort working directly with clients, including explaining model behaviour and trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders
- Practical knowledge of handling regulated or sensitive data and designing for auditability; sovereign or on-premise deployment experience is valuable
- Experience leading root-cause analysis on production AI or ML systems

Where this role sits

Your primary accountability covers production AI behaviour, its backend integration, and the evaluation required for a specific customer. Senior Full-Stack Engineers own the complete user-facing application and its infrastructure. ML Research Engineers lead novel agent architecture and the benchmark methodology used across accounts. The roles work together on agents and evaluation, with accountability set by the scope of the problem. PLEASE NOTE: Our policy requires a 90-day waiting period before reconsidering candidates for the same role. This allows us to ensure a fair and thorough evaluation of all applicants.

About Us:

At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions. Our products provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. We work closely with industry leaders like Meta, Ernst & Young, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force. We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.

We believe that everyone should be able to bring their whole selves to work, which is why we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability status, gender identity or Veteran status.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation in the application or recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at accommodations@scale.com. Please see the United States Department of Labor's [Know Your Rights poster](https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) for additional information.

We comply with the United States Department of Labor's Pay Transparency provision.

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## About Scale AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Scale AI provides high-quality data, RLHF, model evaluations, and full-stack AI infrastructure to help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee reliable AI systems.
- **Entity Type**: Private (49% non‑voting stake owned by Meta Platforms as of June 2025; total funding $1.6B across eight rounds)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Alexandr Wang, Lucy Guo (Wang left in June 2025; current CEO is Jason Droege)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI infrastructure, data annotation, large language model (LLM) evaluation, enterprise AI deployment
- **Target customers**: B2B – Enterprise and government organizations; also serves leading AI labs (e.g., OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta, Microsoft, General Motors)
- **Mission**: “Develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions.”

## Products & Services
- **Data at Scale**: High-quality training data, annotations, and RLHF for advanced AI models (SaaS + human-in-the-loop service)
- **Evaluations**: Rigorous model evaluations, benchmarking, and red‑teaming to measure and improve AI performance (service)
- **Applied AI**: Full‑stack AI systems that help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee reliable AI (SaaS + consulting)
- **Safety, Evaluation and Alignment Lab**: Research arm focused on LLM alignment and safety (internal R&D; also co‑created the “Humanity's Last Exam” benchmark)
- **Subsidiaries**: Remotasks (computer vision and autonomous vehicle data labeling), Outlier (LLM data annotation)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $29B (as of 2025 – cited on scale.com)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $1.6B (including the $14B Meta investment that acquired a 49% non‑voting stake in June 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Meta Platforms (49% owner), with commercial customers including Google, Microsoft, Meta, General Motors, OpenAI, and Time. Also works with U.S. and Qatari governments.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: Scale.com cites “1,000+” employees; LinkedIn reports 3,751 employees (+32.1% YoY).
  - 90% of the world’s leading generative AI model builders are powered by Scale.
  - 15 billion human decisions used to train AI models; $1 billion paid to contributors globally.
  - Active job postings: 284+ (as of July 2025), with strong hiring in enterprise engineering, AI agents, and solutions roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Data moat**: Scale’s proprietary Data Engine and access to millions of human‑annotated decisions create high‑quality training data that competitors cannot easily replicate.
- **Trust & adoption**: Used by 90% of leading GenAI builders; runs private benchmarks for the most ambitious AI companies.
- **Government credibility**: Direct contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense and international governments (e.g., Qatar) – a high‑barrier entry point.
- **Full‑stack offering**: From raw data annotation to LLM evaluation and end‑to‑end applied AI deployment, Scale covers the entire AI lifecycle.
- **Research leadership**: In‑house Safety, Evaluation and Alignment Lab; co‑creator of the “Humanity's Last Exam” benchmark.

## Strategic Focus
- **Enterprise GenAI agents**: Ramping up “AgentOps” and “Frontier Agents” engineering teams (many open roles in SF, NY, London, Budapest).
- **Healthcare & life sciences**: Hiring dedicated GTM leaders and AI strategists for healthcare vertical.
- **International expansion**: Growing offices in London, Budapest, Mexico City, and Washington DC.
- **Safety and alignment**: Continued investment in red‑teaming, model evaluations, and government‑focused AI safety contracts.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission‑driven**: “Develop reliable AI systems for the world’s most important decisions” – directly shaping frontier AI capabilities.
- **Compensation & benefits**: Comprehensive health, dental, vision, mental health services; generous PTO; annual learning & development stipend; parental leave; ERGs; guest‑friendly offices with happy hours, game nights, book clubs.
- **Engineering culture**: Credos such as “Write the Market,” “Find the 20%,” “Earn Customer Love,” and “Quality is Our Cheat Code” emphasize impact over effort, customer obsession, and structured thinking.
- **Growth trajectory**: Rapid headcount growth (+32%), major Meta investment, and expansion into new verticals signal a company in high‑growth mode.
- **Flexible work**: Offices in SF, NY, London, Budapest, Mexico City, DC; the careers page highlights “flexible environment,” though specific remote/hybrid policy is not explicitly stated.

## Sources
1. [scale.com](https://scale.com/about)
2. [scale.com](https://scale.com/)
3. [scale.com/careers](https://scale.com/careers)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/scaleai)
5. [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/scaleai)

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