Engineering Manager, Public Sector

Engineering Manager

Scale AI's Public Sector business is growing quickly as government agencies adopt AI to support critical national security, defense, and public sector missions. We're looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead a team of software engineers building core products and infrastructure for these customers. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in technical environments, enjoys managing teams while staying close to the code, and wants to work on meaningful problems that impact real world operations across the U.S. government. You'll play a critical role in delivering backend systems, distributed platforms, and ML tooling used by our public sector partnersall while helping your team grow and execute.

You'll split your time between technical planning and execution (50%) and people management and team development (50%), leading a team of 6-8 engineers. You'll work cross-functionally with product, security, and customer-facing teams to ensure our engineering efforts meet complex federal compliance, security, and performance needs.

Must be able to commute to office four times per week :

Day to day :

• 50% Software engineeringtechnical product planning, and coding
• 50% Managing a growing team

You will :

Have or ability to obtain a TS / SCI clearance.

Ideally you'd have :

Nice to haves :

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