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Field-based

Field Engineer, Public Sector

2 years experience
Technology & Digital
Engineering
Posted:
December 29, 2025

Scale

Data labelling and model evaluation platform
72.7
Palpable Score
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Scale is a vital part of bringing AI-enabled technologies to the world, from autonomous driving to drones, robots, and large language models. For example, Scale works with the world's top self-driving car and robotics ML teams as well as the largest companies in the generative AI space.

As our customer base is growing, you will be on the front lines of our field engineering efforts for our federal AI projects, having the opportunity to meaningfully impact millions of dollars in revenue by working closely with our largest public sector customers and ensuring that they become passionate, lifelong Scale customers.

Our Field Engineers ensure customers' experiences with Scale's technology are seamless and optimized to build a successful, long-term partnership. Field Engineers partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Operations to lead existing customers through building production-grade data pipelines. We do this by knowing our customer’s use-cases inside and out, and creating the tooling and documentation needed to scalably support their growth.

Field Engineers in general are experts on Scale's products and codebase, and have general technical knowledge on web development, using APIs, and working with large volumes of data. Field Engineers are strong relationship builders, great project managers, and always fun to work with.

The ideal person is a software engineer generalist who enjoys working with clients directly, taking ambiguous requirements and issues, and quickly designing and building sustainable solutions in close collaboration with the Product and Engineering teams. This role is at the intersection of customer delivery, product, and engineering, giving you a breadth of experience and fully leveraging both sides of your brain. If this sounds like you, we invite you to apply!

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Compensation packages at Scale for eligible roles include base salary, equity, and benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position, determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, interview performance, and relevant education or training. Scale employees in eligible roles are also granted equity based compensation, subject to Board of Director approval. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process, and confirm whether the hired role will be eligible for equity grant. You’ll also receive benefits including, but not limited to: Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, a learning and development stipend, and generous PTO. Additionally, this role may be eligible for additional benefits such as a commuter stipend.

Please reference the job posting's subtitle for where this position will be located. For pay transparency purposes, the base salary range for this full-time position in the locations of San Francisco, New York, Seattle is:

$175,000—$219,000 USD

The base salary range for this full-time position in the locations of Washington DC, Texas, Colorado is:

$157,000—$197,000 USD

The base salary range for this full-time position in the location of Hawaii/St. Louis is:

$131,000—$164,000 USD

About the company

Scale

Company overview
Scale builds data infrastructure and tooling used to train, evaluate, and deploy AI systems, including work tied to RLHF, model evaluation, and enterprise AI workflows. Scale sells products like the Scale Data Engine and supports both private-sector and government customers building AI applications. Scale positions the company around “reliable AI systems” and operational excellence alongside software. Scale also runs a large set of roles across engineering, applied AI, operations, and go-to-market teams tied to AI delivery.

Locations and presence

Scale lists San Francisco as the headquarters and commonly hires into hubs like San Francisco and New York, with some roles also listing Seattle. Scale’s careers pages tend to specify location on each role rather than publishing a single, company-wide remote or hybrid policy in one place.

Palpable Score

72.7
/ 100
Scale has real early-career entry points through a dedicated university hub, recurring intern and new grad roles, and a named new grad program for Strategic Projects. Scale is better than many AI startups on transparency, with a published SWE hiring flow and a salary band on at least one flagship new grad posting. Early-career outcomes and stability are the main limiters because public signals point to high intensity and the company has had recent layoffs, while early-career conversion and promotion metrics are not published.
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