Senior Software Engineer, GenAI

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.