Scale AI - Machine Learning Engineer, International Public Sector
Requirements
• Engineering Rigour: Exceptional proficiency in Python and experience building agentic harnesses or AI infrastructure. You write production-ready code that is modular, scalable, and reliable. • Engineering Rigour: • Applied Research Mindset: A track record of taking theoretical AI concepts and turning them into functional prototypes or products. You know how to read a paper and determine if its methods are actually viable for a production system. • Applied Research Mindset: • Evaluation Expertise: Experience in LLM benchmarking, red-teaming, or building evaluations that go beyond standard academic datasets. • Evaluation Expertise: • Advanced Degree: A Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field (with a focus on ML) is preferred, but we value demonstrated impact and engineering excellence. • Advanced Degree: • Agentic Systems Expert: Deep experience in building multi-agent systems, including chain-of-thought optimisation and tool-calling reliability. • Agentic Systems Expert: • Sovereign AI Experience: Experience working with highly regulated data environments, on-premise deployments, or sensitive government use cases. • Inference Optimisation: Knowledge of how to optimise model performance for environments with limited GPU capacity or specific latency requirements. • Inference Optimisation: • Zero-to-One Mindset: You are comfortable navigating ambiguity and enjoy defining research directions from scratch to solve a specific product or mission need. • Zero-to-One Mindset: • 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. • PLEASE NOTE: • 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. • 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 [email protected]. Please see the United States Department of Labor's Know Your Rights poster for additional information. • We comply with the United States Department of Labor's Pay Transparency provision. • PLEASE NOTE: We collect, retain and use personal data for our professional business purposes, including notifying you of job opportunities that may be of interest and sharing with our affiliates. We limit the personal data we collect to that which we believe is appropriate and necessary to manage applicants’ needs, provide our services, and comply with applicable laws. Any information we collect in connection with your application will be treated in accordance with our internal policies and programs designed to protect personal data. Please see our privacy policy for additional information. • PLEASE NOTE:
Responsibilities
• Pioneer Novel Architectures: Design and train state-of-the-art models and agents, moving beyond “off-the-shelf” solutions to create custom architectures for complex public sector reasoning tasks. • Pioneer Novel Architectures: • Lead AI Safety Initiatives: Research and implement robust safety frameworks, including red teaming, alignment (RLHF/DPO), and bias mitigation strategies essential for sovereign AI. • Lead AI Safety Initiatives: • Drive Deep Research Capabilities: Develop agents capable of long-horizon reasoning and autonomous information synthesis to solve complex problems for national security and public policy. • Drive Deep Research Capabilities: • Publish and Contribute: Represent Scale in the broader research community by publishing high-impact papers and contributing to open-source breakthroughs. • Publish and Contribute: • Consult as a Subject Matter Expert: Act as a technical authority for public sector leaders, advising on the theoretical limits and safety requirements of emerging AI. • Consult as a Subject Matter Expert: • Build Evaluation Frontiers: Create new benchmarks and evaluation protocols that define what success looks like for high-stakes, non-commercial AI applications. • Build Evaluation Frontiers: • Ideally, you’d have: • Advanced Degree: PhD or Master’s in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field with a focus on Deep Learning. • Advanced Degree: • Research Track Record: A portfolio of first-author publications at major conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, EMNLP, etc.). • Research Track Record: • Engineering Rigour: Strong proficiency in Python, deep learning frameworks (PyTorch/JAX), with the ability to write production-ready code that scales. • Engineering Rigour: • Safety Expertise: Experience in alignment, robustness, or interpretability research. • Safety Expertise:
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