Engineering Manager, Public Sector Washington, DC

Engineering Manager, Public Sector

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 engineering - technical product planning, and coding
• 50% Managing a growing team.

You will :

Ideally you'd have :

Nice to haves :

The base salary range for this position in the location of Washington DC is :

$169,000 - $279,000 USD

Please reference the job posting's subtitle for where this position will be located. For pay transparency purposes, the base salary range for this full-time position in the locations of San Francisco, New York, Seattle is :

$188,000 - $311,000 USD

About Us :

At Scale, we believe that the transition from traditional software to AI is one of the most important shifts of our time. Our mission is to make that happen faster across every industry, and our team is transforming how organizations build and deploy AI. Our products power the world's most advanced LLMs, generative models, and computer vision models. We are trusted by generative AI companies such as OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft, government agencies like the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force, and enterprises including GM and Accenture. 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 accommodations@scale.com. Please see the United States Department of Labor's Pay Transparency provision.

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