Engineering Manager, Defense
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About the Role
About Scale AI 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 c.
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Responsibilities
- Manage and grow the engineering team in the region, driving technical delivery across defense and public sector engagements
- Design, build, and optimize backend services for advanced AI driven applications, focusing on AI agents, evaluation tooling, and automation
- Lead full stack engineering efforts end to end from system design and architecture through to debugging, testing, and production deployment
- Serve as the senior technical authority on defense related projects, applying domain knowledge to ensure solutions meet mission critical standards and security requirements
- Architect and deploy AI agent frameworks and API integrations tailored to defense and government workflows
- Work cross functionally across internal engineering teams and external defense and government clients
- Own the full product lifecycle from conceptualization through production, ensuring high velocity delivery without sacrificing quality
- Deliver experiments and MVPs at a high velocity and level of quality to drive engagement with defense customers
- Influence the culture, values, and processes of a growing engineering team in the region
- Inspire and mentor engineers, fostering a technically excellent and mission driven team environment
- Collaborate with cross functional teams to define, design, and ship new product features and experiences tailored to defense requirements
Requirements
- Highly technical and strategic senior manager with deep domain knowledge in defense
- Experience managing and growing engineering teams
- Expertise in designing, building, and optimizing backend services for AI driven applications
- Full stack engineering experience from system design to production deployment
- Experience with AI agent frameworks and API integrations for defense/government workflows
- Ability to deliver experiments and MVPs at high velocity
- Strong cross functional collaboration skills
- Experience influencing culture, values, and processes of a growing engineering team
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About Scale AI
- Scale's rapidly growing Global Public Sector team is focused on using AI to address critical challenges facing the public sector around the world.
- Core work: Creating custom AI applications, generating high quality training data for national LLMs, and upskilling/advisory services.
- We're investing heavily in infrastructure and people to keep applications reliable, secure, and trusted by government partners.
Role Overview
- We are looking for a highly technical and strategic Senior Manager, Defense Engineering to lead our engineering efforts across the Middle East region, specifically supporting defense related projects.
- This senior leader will drive delivery of custom AI applications for defense and national security clients, bridging deep domain knowledge in the defense space with cutting edge AI and full stack engineering expertise.
What You'll Do
- Manage and grow the engineering team in the region, driving technical delivery across defense and public sector engagements.
- Design, build, and optimize backend services for advanced AI driven applications, with a strong focus on AI agents, evaluation tooling, and automation.
- Lead full stack engineering efforts end to end from system design and architecture through to debugging, testing, and production deployment.
- Serve as the senior technical authority on defense related projects, applying domain knowledge to ensure solutions meet mission critical standards and security requirements.
- Architect and deploy AI agent frameworks and API integrations tailored to defense and government workflows.
- Work comfortably cross functionally across internal engineering teams and external defense and government clients.
- Own the full product lifecycle from conceptualization through production, ensuring high velocity delivery without sacrificing quality.
- Deliver experiments and MVPs at a high velocity and level of quality to drive engagement with defense customers.
- Influence the culture, values, and processes of a growing engineering team in the region.
- Inspire and mentor engineers, fostering a technically excellent and mission driven team environment.
- Collaborate with cross functional teams to define, design, and ship new product features and experiences tailored to defense requirements.
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