Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Public Sector

Scale AI · Denver, CO; Washington

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Company
Scale AI
Location
Denver, CO; Washington
Salary
$274,400 — $343,000
Posted
January 30, 2026

About this job

The goal of a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Scale is to lead the design and deployment of agentic AI systems that operate in real-world, mission-critical government environments. On the Public Sector team, you’ll work at the intersection of agentic ML, systems engineering, and applied research, building foundational infrastructure that enables AI systems to reason, plan, and act reliably at national scale. Our Public Sector ML Team partners directly with U.S. defense and intelligence agencies to deploy AI into classified and regulated environments. Through flagship programs like Donovan and Thunderforge, we are advancing the next generation of agentic AI for geospatial reasoning, planning, and decision support.…

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