- Experience working directly with enterprise customers.
- Ability to translate complex technical requirements into scalable production systems.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience leading architecture reviews, technical workshops, or customer design sessions.
Dual Fluency
While this role initially emphasizes enterprise engineering and production deployment, every Frontier Agent Engineer develops expertise across both Forward Deployed Engineering and Applied AI.
Over time, you'll deepen your understanding of modern agent architectures, evaluation methodologies, retrieval systems, reasoning techniques, and emerging AI technologies, while continuing to build world-class production software. Our goal is to develop engineers who can design, build, evaluate, deploy, and continuously improve frontier AI systems end to end.
Compensation packages at Scale for eligible roles include base salary, equity, and benefits. 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; it will be determined during the interview process based on work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, qualifications, interview performance, and relevant education or training.
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. You'll also receive benefits including, but not limited to: 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.
Please reference the job posting's subtitle for where this position will be located. For pay transparency purposes, the base salary range for this full-time position in the locations of San Francisco, New York, Seattle is:
$180,000—$225,000 USD
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.