Senior Software Engineer, GenAI at Scale AI

About Scale AI

Scale AI accelerates AI application development as the leading AI data foundry supporting generative AI, defense, and autonomous vehicle sectors. The GenAI Data Engine powers advanced language models through reinforcement learning with human feedback, data generation, and model safety alignment.

About the team

Candidates may be placed across multiple GenAI Engineering teams: Allocation, Growth, Frontier Data, Trust and Safety, Pay, Operator, or Tasking Experience. These teams manage data operations from dataset creation to contributor incentives and integrity safeguarding.

Responsibilities

Design and maintain full-stack systems (frontend, backend, infrastructure)

Build features using the specified tech stack

Work directly with internal operators to identify and resolve bottlenecks

Own critical contributor platform systems impacting data pipelines

Scale infrastructure handling millions of weekly tasks

Cross-functional collaboration with ML and product teams

Mentor engineers and establish best practices

Requirements

5+ years software engineering experience, preferably high-growth environments

Demonstrated production-scale system delivery

Technical expertise in one or more: frontend frameworks, distributed systems, data infrastructure, or tooling

Full-stack capability preferred

Strong product sense translating complex problems into solutions

Bias toward execution in fast-paced, high-ownership settings

Openness to hybrid SF or NYC work

Tech Stack

TypeScript, React, Node.js, Python, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Temporal

Compensation

Base salary: $216,000 - $270,000 USD

Benefits

Base salary plus equity, health, dental, vision, retirement, learning stipend, PTO, commuter stipend.