About the Role
This is a horizontal, high-impact L6 Staff Fullstack Engineer & Architect position reporting directly to the Director of Contributor Engineering. Your scope is spread across all Contributor (CB) teams, powering Scale’s AI data operations. You will act as an organizational architect and tech lead, embedding yourself into high-priority projects and leading the long-term technical evolution of the stack.
Responsibilities
- Deploy flexibly into critical, fast-moving product initiatives across the CB organization
- Lead the architectural overhaul of our platform infrastructure, making it highly sustainable, robust, and optimized for deep integration with LLMs and foundation models
- Lead architecture decisions for scalability, reliability, and performance
- Mentor and uplevel engineers across the team
- Partner with product and leadership to shape roadmap and priorities
- Own large, ambiguous problem spaces end-to-end
- Work across backend, frontend, and ML systems
Requirements
- 7+ years of full-time engineering experience, post-graduation, with a proven track record of operating as a Tech Lead, Architect, or Principal Engineer
- Track record of shipping high-quality products and features at scale
- Experience tinkering with or productizing LLMs, vector databases, and the other latest AI technologies
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Skills
- Javascript/Typescript
- SQL
Location
- San Francisco
- New York
- Seattle
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- L6 Staff
- 7+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $252,000—$315,000 USD
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
- Retirement benefits
- Learning and development stipend
- Generous PTO
- Commuter stipend
About the Company
- 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, Ernst & Young, 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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 comply with the United States Department of Labor's Pay Transparency provision.
