Scale AI

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Public Sector

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1 month ago
Washington, DC, USASenior
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$226k - $282k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Deploy internally developed and community-developed models to solve customer and tasker problems in production.
  • Improve and maintain production models through retraining, hyperparameter tuning, and architectural updates.
  • Collaborate with product and research teams to identify and prototype ML-driven product enhancements.
  • Develop generic models and fine-tuned models using massive datasets.
  • Build scalable machine learning infrastructure to automate and optimize ML services.
  • Represent and advocate for machine learning techniques across engineering and product organizations.
  • Learn new technologies quickly and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  • Travel approximately 10% for customer interaction and team needs.
  • Maintain an active security clearance.

Requirements

  • Extensive production experience with generative AI, agentic AI, natural language processing, deep learning, deep reinforcement learning, or computer vision.
  • Strong background in algorithms, data structures, and object-oriented programming.
  • Strong programming skills in Python.
  • Experience with TensorFlow or PyTorch.
  • Graduate degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or an Artificial Intelligence specialization is preferred.
  • Experience with AWS or GCP and deploying machine learning models in cloud environments is preferred.
  • Experience with computer vision, generative AI models, large language models, or agentic systems is preferred.
  • Familiarity with machine learning evaluation frameworks and agentic model design is preferred.
  • An active security clearance is required.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Retirement benefits.
  • Learning and development stipend.
  • Generous paid time off.
  • Potential commuter stipend eligibility.
  • Approximately 10% travel and full-time employment in Washington, DC.
  • The role requires an active security clearance.
Scale AI

About Scale AI

501-1,000 employees

Scale’s mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world’s most important decisions. We 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. The Scale Generative AI Platform allows customers to build, evaluate, and control advanced AI agents and applications that continuously improve. The Scale Data Engine provides the technology to collect, curate, and annotate high-quality datasets. Through our Scale Labs, we test models with rigorous benchmarks and novel research to ensure breakthroughs translate into systems people can trust. Scale powers the most advanced LLMs and generative models in the world through RLHF, data generation and model evaluation. We work 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.

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