Scale AI

Scale AI

Senior/Staff Machine Learning Research Engineer, General Agents, Enterprise GenAI

US · Staff+ · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$265k-$331kDetected 3 days ago
PythonFull-Stack DevelopmentCloud PlatformsMachine LearningLLMsAgentic AIResearchLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • Productionize frontier agent techniques (e.g., planning, multi-step reasoning and tool-use, multi-agent patterns) into maintainable, observable systems.
  • Contribute to technical direction and architectural decisions for general agent development best practices and methods, with increasing scope and leadership at the Staff level.

Responsibilities

  • Scale AI is the data foundation for AI, helping organizations build and deploy reliable production AI applications.
  • The team sits at the intersection of frontier agent development and real-world deployment, translating state-of-the-art reasoning and agentic capabilities into reliable, production-grade systems that drive real economic value.
  • You will work across the full agent lifecycle-from model and system design to evaluation, deployment, and iteration-bridging cutting-edge agentic techniques with the constraints and requirements of real customer environments.
  • Design and implement end-to-end agent systems that combine LLM reasoning, tool use, memory, and control logic to solve recurring enterprise use cases.
  • Own deployment, monitoring, and iteration of agent systems, including failure analysis and continuous improvement based on real-world usage.
  • Deep understanding of modern LLMs, prompt-, context-, and system-level optimization, and agentic system design.
  • Hands-on experience building AI agents using modern generative AI stacks (OpenAI APIs, commercial or open-source LLMs).

Requirements

  • Experience with agent frameworks, orchestration layers, or workflow systems (e.g., tool calling, planners, multi-agent setups).
  • Familiarity with evaluation, monitoring, and observability for LLM-powered systems in production.

Nice to have

  • Proven proficiency in Python, including writing production-quality, testable, and maintainable code.
  • Ability to operate in ambiguous problem spaces, balancing research-driven approaches with pragmatic product constraints.

Skills

  • Strong communication skills and comfort working in customer-facing or cross-functional environments.
  • Experience deploying ML systems in cloud environments and operating them at scale.

Compensation

  • $264,800-$331,000 USD

Benefits

  • 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.
  • Compensation packages at Scale for eligible roles include base salary, equity, and benefits.
  • 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.

Company info

  • At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions.
  • Our products provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact.
  • We work closely with industry leaders like Meta, Ernst & Young, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force.
  • We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.
  • We believe that everyone should be able to bring their whole selves to work, which is why we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace.
  • We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability status, gender identity or Veteran status.
  • We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.
  • If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation in the application or recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at accommodations@scale.com.
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  • al employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability status, gender identity or Veteran status
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