Senior Applied AI Engineer

Job summary

Responsibilities

Scale's Global Public Sector team is focused on using AI to address critical challenges facing the public sector around the world. As a Senior Applied AI Engineer, you'll own the AI behaviour of production systems our clients depend on, including the agents, evaluations, and backend integration…

• Own the AI layer of production systems for public sector clients, including agents, model integration, and the backend services they run on
• Build production agents from established architectural patterns, with reliable tool calling, guardrails, and observability
• Select and adapt established evaluation methods, and design new evaluations for client-specific risks
• Apply context engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, model adaptation, or inference optimisation
• Investigate regressions in the systems you own, lead root-cause analysis, and implement preventative changes

Tech stack

• RAG