Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise GenAI

Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise GenAI at Scale AI

AI is becoming vitally important in every function of our society. At Scale, our mission is to accelerate the development of AI applications. For 8 years, Scale has been the leading AI data foundry, helping fuel the most exciting advancements in AI, including: generative AI, defense applications, and autonomous vehicles. With our recent Series F round, we’re accelerating the usage of frontier data and models by building complex agents for enterprises around the world through our Scale Generative Platform (SGP).

The SGP ML team works on the front lines of this AI revolution. We interface directly with clients to build cutting edge products using the arsenal of proprietary research and resources developed at Scale. As an Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise GenAI, you’ll work with clients to create ML solutions to satisfy their business needs. Your work will range from building next-generation AI cybersecurity firewalls to creating transformative AI experiences in journalism to applying foundation genomic models making predictions about life-saving drug proteins. Daily data-driven experiments will provide key insights around model strengths and inefficiencies which you’ll use to improve your product’s performance. If you are excited about shaping the future of the modern AI movement, we would love to hear from you!

What You Will Do

• Own, plan, and optimize the AI behind our Enterprise customer’s deepest technical problems
• Leverage SGP to build the most advanced AI agents across the industry including multimodal functionality, tool-calling, and more
• Have experience gathering business requirements and translating them into technical solutions
• Meet regularly with customer teams onsite and virtually, collaborating cross-functionally with all teams responsible for their data and ML needs
• Push production code in multiple development environments, writing and debugging code directly in both our customer’s and Scale’s codebases.
• Be able and willing to multi-task and learn new technologies quickly

What You Ideally Have

• A love for solving deeply complex technical problems with ambiguity using state of the art research and AI to accomplish your client’s business goals
• Strong engineering background: a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or another quantitative field or equivalent strong engineering background.
• Deep familiarity with a data-driven approach when iterating on machine learning models and how changes in datasets can influence model results
• Experience working with cloud technology stack (eg. AWS or GCP) and developing machine learning models in a cloud environment
• Proficiency in Python to write, test and debug code using common libraries (ie numpy, pandas)

Nice to Haves

• Strong knowledge of software engineering best practices
• Have built applications taking advantage of Generative AI in real, production use cases
• Familiarity with state of the art LLMs and their strengths/weaknesses

Compensation & Benefits

Compensation packages at Scale for eligible roles include base salary, equity, and benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position, determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, interview performance, and relevant education or training. Scale employees in eligible roles are also granted equity based compensation, subject to Board of Director approval. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process, and confirm whether the hired role will be eligible for equity grant. You’ll also receive benefits including, but not limited to: Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, a learning and development stipend, and generous PTO. Additionally, this role may be eligible for additional benefits such as a commuter stipend.

For pay transparency purposes, the base salary range for this full-time position in the locations of San Francisco, New York, Seattle is:

$180,600—$225,750 USD

About Scale AI

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, Cisco, DLA Piper, 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.

Key skills/competency

• Generative AI
• Machine Learning
• Client Solutions
• AI Agents
• Data-driven Experimentation
• Model Optimization
• Production Code Deployment
• Business Requirements Analysis
• Cloud ML Platforms
• Python Programming