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San Francisco, CA

ML Research Engineer, ML Systems

No experience
Technology & Digital
Software engineering
Posted:
December 29, 2025

Scale

Data labelling and model evaluation platform
72.7
Palpable Score
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Scale’s ML platform (RLXF) team builds our internal distributed framework for large language model training and inference. The platform has been powering MLEs, researchers, data scientists and operators for fast and automatic training and evaluation of LLM's, as well as evaluation of data quality.

Scale is uniquely positioned at the heart of the field of AI as an indispensable provider of training and evaluation data and end-to-end solutions for the ML lifecycle. You will work closely across Scale’s ML teams and researchers to build the foundation platform that supports all our ML research and development. You will be building and optimizing the platform to enable our next generation of LLM training, inference and data curation.

If you are excited about shaping the future AI via fundamental innovations, we would love to hear from you!

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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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