Staff Full Stack Software Engineer (Forward Deployed) GPS

About Scale AI and the Role

Scale AI is seeking a Staff Full-Stack Software Engineer, (Forward Deployed), GPS to join its rapidly growing International Public Sector team. This full-time position is based in Riyadh and focuses on leveraging AI to address critical challenges within the public sector globally. The core work involves creating custom AI applications, generating high-quality training data for custom LLMs, and providing upskilling and advisory services to expand the impact of AI.

Role Overview

As a Full-Stack Software Engineer (Forward Deployed), you will work directly with public sector counterparts to develop full-stack AI applications. The objective is to solve pressing challenges and achieve significant impact for citizens through cutting-edge technology. This role contributes to enabling the public sector to transform operations and enhance citizen services.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the lead technical strategist for public sector engagements, translating mission requirements into architectural roadmaps and guiding onsite implementation.
• Architect foundational frameworks for production-grade AI applications, establishing standards for integrating interactive UIs, backend systems, and AI models for reliable outcomes.
• Guide the evolution of cloud infrastructure, ensuring security, global scalability, and long-term system integrity across environments.
• Direct the development of core platforms and shared services to address cross-cutting needs for diverse global client use cases.
• Partner with cross-functional leadership to steer the technical roadmap, mentor staff, and ensure product alignment with a cohesive technical architecture.
• Bridge the gap between field operations and the core platform by converting client lessons into reusable patterns for the engineering team.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent deep industry experience in architecting complex, distributed systems.
• Over 10 years of full-stack expertise across Python, ****, and React, with a proven track record of designing high-scale architectures on Kubernetes and global cloud infrastructures (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Expert ability to design and oversee production-grade ecosystems, ensuring world-class standards for system integrity, security, and long-term scalability.
• Extensive experience deploying and troubleshooting sophisticated end-to-end solutions directly within complex, high-security client environments.
• Proven track record of building LLM-driven solutions with strategic foresight to anticipate landscape shifts and architect future-proof systems.
• A self-driven leader capable of resolving extreme ambiguity, mentoring senior staff, and setting the technical vision for the organization.
• A driver of asynchronous workflows and documentation-first cultures to streamline global engineering velocity.

Preferred Experience

• Past experience working at a startup as a CTO or founding engineer, or in a forward-deployed engineer/dedicated customer engineer role.
• Experience working cross-functionally with operations.

Application Process

If you meet the qualifications and are prepared to contribute to the future of AI in the public sector, we encourage you to apply.