Software Engineer, Public Sector, New Grad

About the Role

As a New Grad Software Engineer on the Public Sector team at Scale, you will own meaningful, mission-facing work from day one. This includes shipping features, collaborating with government stakeholders who use them, and iterating rapidly.

Key Responsibilities

• Build multi-layered guardrails for agent safety and predictability in high-stakes federal environments.
• Optimize data retrieval for agents, including RAG pipelines over large, heterogeneous federal datasets.
• Build orchestration for fleets of asynchronous agents performing long-horizon tasks.
• Develop systems to automatically alert users to deviations and anomalies in incoming data.
• Create interfaces to illustrate agent decision-making processes, enabling operator audit and trust.
• Develop data pipelines and ML infrastructure to make siloed government data sources accessible to agents.
• Build evaluation infrastructure to measure model reliability against mission requirements.
• Ship full-stack tooling for analysts to query, visualize, and explore mission data.
• Deploy and harden applications into secure, air-gapped, and cloud-native government environments.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Graduation date in Fall 2026 or Spring 2027 with a Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field (Computer Science, EECS, Computer Engineering, Statistics).
• Product engineering experience, including building full-stack web applications, integrating with APIs and services, engaging with users, and iterating on product development.
• Previous Product/Software Engineering internship experience.
• Track record of shipping high-quality products and features.
• Experience building systems that process large volumes of data.
• Experience with Python, Typescript, React, and/or MongoDB.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Comfort with ambiguity, evolving requirements, and a willingness to learn new domains quickly.

Nice to Have

• Hands-on experience with LLMs, evaluations, or agentic systems from internships, research, or personal projects.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), containerization (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Exposure to ETL, data modeling, data warehousing, or data governance.
• Prior experience with, or demonstrated interest in, national security, defense, or civil government technology.
• Open source contributions or a portfolio of shipped side projects.

Compensation

• Base salary range for this position in San Francisco: $124,000—$162,000 USD.
• Compensation packages include base salary, equity, and benefits.
• Benefits include comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage, retirement benefits, a learning and development stipend, and generous PTO.
• May be eligible for additional benefits such as a commuter stipend.