Staff Software Engineer, Public Sector

Scale AI · San Francisco, CA; St. Louis, MO; New York, NY; Washington

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Company: Scale AI
Location: San Francisco, CA; St. Louis, MO; New York, NY; Washington
Salary: $252,000 — $362,000
Posted: March 31, 2026

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The Public Sector software engineers (SWEs) create the core product building blocks forward-deployed teams use to develop agentic capabilities that function across multiple domains. SWEs responsibilities include building the systems required to ingest and process federal datasets to support real-time decision-making in contested environments. We develop novel agentic enabling capabilities that includes: Create multi-layered guardrails around agents Optimize data retrieval for agents Orchestrate fleets of asynchronous agents Automatically alerts users to deviations in data Illustrating how an agent reached a decision As a Staff Software Engineer, you will orchestrate the implementation of vertical features and horizontal capabilities to include mentoring other engineers on defining…

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