Staff Full-Stack Software Engineer, (Forward Deployed), GPS

<p>Scale’s rapidly growing Global Public Sector team is focused on using AI to address critical challenges facing the public sector around the world. Our core work consists of:</p> <ul> <li>Creating custom AI applications that will impact millions of citizens</li> <li>Generating high-quality training data for custom LLMs</li> <li>Upskilling and advisory services to spread the impact of AI</li> </ul> <p>As a Full Stack Software Engineer (Forward Deployed), you’ll collaborate directly with public sector counterparts to quickly build full-stack, AI applications, to solve their most pressing challenges and achieve meaningful impact for citizens.</p> <p>At Scale, we’re not just building AI solutions—we’re enabling the public sector to transform their operations and better serve citizens through cutting-edge technology. If you’re ready to shape the future of AI in the public sector and be a founding member of our team, we’d love to hear from you.</p> <h3>You will:</h3> <ul> <li>Serve as the lead technical strategist for public sector engagements, converting ambiguous mission requirements into robust architectural roadmaps and guiding onsite implementation.</li> <li>Architect the fundamental frameworks for production-grade AI applications, setting the gold standard for how interactive UIs, backend systems, and AI models are integrated at scale to deliver reliable outcomes.</li> <li>Guide the evolution of cloud infrastructure, ensuring security, global scalability, and long-term system integrity across all environments.</li> <li>Direct the development of core platforms and shared services, ensuring they solve cross-cutting needs for diverse global client use cases.</li> <li>Partner with cross-functional leadership to steer the technical roadmap, mentoring senior and junior staff and ensuring all products align with a cohesive, future-proof technical architecture.</li> <li>Bridge the gap between the field and the core platform by turning real-world client lessons into the reusable patterns that power the entire engineering team.</li> </ul> <h3>Ideally you’d have:</h3> <ul> <li>Masters or Phd in Computer Science or equivalent deep industry experience in architecting complex, distributed systems.</li> <li>10+ years of full-stack expertise across Python, Node.js, and React, with a proven track record of designing high-scale architectures on Kubernetes and global cloud infrastructures (AWS/Azure/GCP).</li> <li>Expert ability to design and oversee production-grade ecosystems, ensuring world-class standards for system integrity, security, and long-term scalability.</li> <li>Extensive experience deploying and troubleshooting sophisticated end-to-end solutions directly within complex, high-security client environments.</li> <li>Proven track record of building LLM-driven solutions with the strategic foresight to anticipate landscape shifts and architect future-proof systems.</li> <li>A self-driven leader capable of resolving extreme ambiguity, mentoring senior staff, and setting the technical vision for the organization.</li> <li>A driver of asynchronous workflows and documentation-first cultures to streamline global engineering velocity and reduce friction.</li> </ul> <h3>Nice to haves:</h3> <ul> <li>Past experience working at a