Staff Applied AI Engineer

Job summary

<h3><strong>About the role</strong></h3> <p>Scale's Global Public Sector team is focused on using AI to address critical challenges facing the public sector around the world. As a Staff Applied AI Engineer, you'll raise the bar for how AI gets built, governed, and evaluated across the team.

Qualifications

• li>7+ years of engineering experience, with a multi-year track record owning AI/ML systems in production</li>
• li>Experience judging the quality of training data, selecting the right adaptation method for a given model, evaluating fine-tuning results, and balancing serving cost, latency, and quality trade-offs</li>
• li>Experience owning an AI-powered product end to end, including direct involvement in the AI's behaviour rather than implementing ML work scoped by another team</li>
• li>Deep experience with regulated, sovereign, or on-premise AI deployment, including hallucination mitigation and auditability</li>
• p>Your primary accountability covers production AI behaviour, its backend integration, and the evaluation required for a specific customer.
• vary by assignment.
• Some UK assignments require BPSS screening and may require SC or DV clearance.
• depend on the account and each candidate's circumstances.
• We discuss assignment-specific eligibility early in the hiring process.</p>
• p> </p><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong><em>PLEASE NOTE: </em></strong><em>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.</em></p>
• p><strong>About Us:</strong></p>

Responsibilities

• As a Staff Applied AI Engineer, you'll raise the bar for how AI gets built, governed, and evaluated across the team.
• You'll define standards that other engineers adopt, such as evaluation methodologies for agents and MLOps practices, while acting as the senior technical voice for the most sensitive AI decisions our clients face.</p>
• p><strong>What you'll do</strong></p>

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