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Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Public Sector

The goal of a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Scale is to lead the design and deployment of agentic AI systems that operate in real-world, mission-critical government environments. On the Public Sector team, you’ll work at the intersecti

Company

Scale AI

Location

Denver, CO; Washington, DC

Status

Open

Posted

2026-01-30T22:10:50+00:00

Scale AI is hiring a Staff Machine Learning Engineer for its Public Sector team, based on-site in Denver or Washington, DC, and requiring an active TS clearance. The role leads architecture and deployment of agentic AI for U.S. defense and intelligence customers: long-horizon reasoning, geospatial reasoning over maps, retrieval, embedding fine-tuning, agent memory, shared agentic libraries, and evaluation. The posting asks for 8+ years of production applied ML, Python and PyTorch, retrieval and representation learning, and staff-level technical direction. Base salary for Washington, DC is $274,400–$343,000.