# Engineering Manager, Frontier AI Infrastructure - Public Sector at Scale

- Company: Scale
- What the company does: Backed by Accel, Index and Y Combinator.
- Company website: http://www.scale.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Washington, DC
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-09
- Apply by: 2026-10-24
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/scaleai/jobs/4732365005
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/scale-engineering-manager-frontier-ai-infrastructure-public-sector/

## About the role

Scale AI’s Public Sector business is growing quickly as government agencies adopt AI to support critical national security, defense, and public sector missions. We are seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead our Frontier AI Infrastructure team within Public Sector Engineering. This is a 50/50 role : you'll spend roughly half your time writing and reviewing code, and half your time leading, coaching, and growing a small team of engineers.

## What they're looking for

- Lead, coach, and grow a team of engineers — own hiring, onboarding, performance, and career development
- Set technical direction and quarterly priorities for the inference layer, and hold the team accountable to delivery on customer and contract commitments
- Run the operational rhythm of the team: sprint planning, on-call rotation, incident review, and postmortems
- Partner with Product, Program, and Deployed Engineering leadership to translate customer and mission requirements into roadmap
- Represent the team in customer engagements and vendor escalations, including with government stakeholders
- Design and implement secure, scalable backend systems for Public Sector customers, leveraging Scale's modern cloud-native AI infrastructure

Tags: Public Sector Engineering