Scale AI
Software Engineer - New Grad
San Francisco, CA · Junior · Internship
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About the role
- That is the problem our engineers work on.
- The base salary range for this full-time position in the location of San Francisco is: $124,000 - $162,000 USD PLEASE NOTE: Our policy requires a 90-day waiting period before reconsidering candidates for the same role.
Responsibilities
- Team Flow - ideas, energy, and support move freely across teams; optimize for the whole
- Quality is Our Cheat Code - the systems that deliver quality consistently are a structural advantage
- Find the 20% - find the inputs that drive the outcomes and execute them completely
- Write the Market - our research puts us at the frontier, and we bring our partners there first
Requirements
- A graduation date in Fall 2026 or Spring 2027 with a Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field (Computer Science, EECS, Computer Engineering, Statistics)
- Previous Product/Software Engineering internship experience
- Track record of shipping high-quality products and features at scale
- Experience with Python, Typescript, React, and/or MongoDB
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with LLMs, evaluations, or agentic systems - whether from internships, research, or personal projects
- Open source contributions or a portfolio of shipped side projects
- Our credos shape how we make decisions and work as a team:
- Earn Customer Love - trust is earned with every interaction, every delivery, and every problem we solve
- Three Moves Ahead - consider the consequences of consequences, and plan accordingly
- The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position and may be inclusive of several career levels at Scale
- PLEASE NOTE: Our policy requires a 90-day waiting period before reconsidering candidates for the same role.
- This allows us to ensure a fair and thorough evaluation of all applicants.
Skills
- Ship agentic AI applications and the tooling that makes them observable, testable, and safe to deploy
- Ship tools that accelerate the growth of new qualified contributors on Scale's platform
- Use models to estimate the quality of tasks and contributors, and guarantee quality on requests at large scale
- Integrate a cutting-edge ML model that predicts churn into a customer's retention system
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.
- The base salary range for this full-time position in the location of San Francisco is: $124,000 - $162,000 USD PLEASE NOTE: Our policy requires a 90-day waiting period before reconsidering candidates for the same role.
- $124,000 - $162,000 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.
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. Please see the United States Department of Labor's Know Your Rights poster for additional information.
- We comply with the United States Department of Labor's Pay Transparency provision.
- We collect, retain and use personal data for our professional business purposes, including notifying you of job opportunities that may be of interest and sharing with our affiliates.
- We limit the personal data we collect to that which we believe is appropriate and necessary to manage applicants' needs, provide our services, and comply with applicable laws.
- 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.
- Please see the United States Department of Labor's Know Your Rights poster for additional information.
- PLEASE NOTE: We collect, retain and use personal data for our professional business purposes, including notifying you of job opportunities that may be of interest and sharing with our affiliates.
- Any information we collect in connection with your application will be treated in accordance with our internal policies and programs designed to protect personal data.
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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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