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Principal Architect
Principal Architect Location: Washington, DC About the Role We are seeking a Principal Architect to drive the design, development, and deployment of our agentic AI products in a fast-paced, collaborative, extremely high-visibility environment. In this role, you will lead a team of 50+ engineers, providing both strategic and technical guidance. You’ll be responsible for high-impact architectural decisions, cross-company collaboration, and executive level engagements. What You9ll Do
- Team Leadership: Lead and mentor a high-performing engineering team of 50+, fostering a culture of technical excellence and ownership.
- Technical Direction: Guide your team through complex challenges involving LLMs, AI agents, and large-scale distributed systems.
- Executive Stakeholder Engagement: Represent Scale AI in high-stakes negotiations and strategic discussions with senior external partners, demonstrating strong technical competence and credibility.
- Strategic Planning & Communication: Develop and communicate a compelling vision for Scale AI9s technology applied to your program. Provide regular updates to senior leadership and key stakeholders on progress, risks, and opportunities.
- Culture & Teamwork: Foster a culture of speed, unity of purpose, resilience, and teamwork. Lead through uncertainty with determination and adaptability.
What We9re Looking For
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in a technical leadership or staff role.
- Deep understanding of modern AI/ML technologies, including experience working with LLMs and AI agents.
- Proficient in one or more modern programming languages (Python, JavaScript/TypeScript)
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Strong product and business sense, with a track record of aligning engineering efforts with company goals.
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-changing environments and guide your team to do the same.
- Experience in executive level engagement with industry partners and Public Sector customers
Success Metrics Within 6 months:
- Successful demonstration of agentic AI9s mission value in high-stakes customer demonstrations
- Establish Scale AI as the preferred agentic AI partner for the PEO
- Establish high velocity, agile engineering cadence both internally and with our industry partners
Within 12 6 months:
- Secure follow-on contract award with expanded scope for Scale
- Position Scale AI as the global AI leader in this mission area
- Establish developed solutions as Scale product offerings to deliver on future contracts
*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,...
Scale AI provides high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world’s leading models and enable enterprises and governments to build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. They offer a data-centric, end-to-end solution to manage the entire machine learning lifecycle, combining cutting edge technology with operational excellence to help teams develop the highest-quality datasets.
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