Software Engineer, GenAI Tasking Experience

1 Day ago • 3 Years + • $160,000 PA - $192,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Software Engineer on the Tasking Experience team at Scale AI, you will build web-based applications for annotating data for language model training and evaluation. Your responsibilities will include owning large areas within the product, building features end-to-end, delivering experiments at a high velocity, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring junior engineers. The role involves designing tasks, gathering contributor feedback, and using LLMs for data validation. This role requires building and maintaining web-based interfaces for large-scale data collection.

Must have:

3+ years of relevant experience is preferred.
Track record of shipping high-quality products and features at scale.
Ability to turn business and product ideas into engineering solutions.
Excellent problem-solving skills, and be able to work independently or as part of a team.

Perks:

Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
Retirement benefits
Learning and development stipend
Generous PTO
Commuter stipend (may be eligible)

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Job Details

About Scale

At Scale AI, our mission is to accelerate the development of AI applications. For 8 years, Scale has been the leading AI data foundry, helping fuel the most exciting advancements in AI, including: generative AI, defense applications, and autonomous vehicles. With our recent Series F round, we’re accelerating the abundance of frontier data to pave the road to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and building upon our prior model evaluation work with enterprise customers and governments, to deepen our capabilities and offerings for both public and private evaluations.

About Data Engine

Our Generative AI Data Engine powers the world’s most advanced LLMs and generative models through world-class RLHF (Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback), human data generation, model evaluation, safety, and alignment. The data we are producing is some of the most important work for how humanity will interact with AI.

About our Tasking Experience team

Generating high-quality data is the core problem our business solves. Our Tasking Experience team focuses on building web-based applications that allow our contributors to annotate high quality data for language model training & evaluation. As a Software Engineer on the team, you’ll focus on building web based interfaces that allow large scale data collections for cutting edge models. You will invest in task design for collecting agentic data, contributor feedback techniques, automated data validation using LLMs, & different front end architectures (primarily react based).

Responsibilities:

Own large areas within our product
Build features end-to-end: front-end, back-end, system design, debugging and testing
Deliver experiments at a high velocity and level of quality to engage our customers
Work across the entire product lifecycle from conceptualization through production
Influence the culture, values, and processes of a growing engineering team
Inspire and mentor less experienced engineers
Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new product features and experiences.

Requirements:

3+ years of relevant experience is preferred
Track record of shipping high-quality products and features at scale
Desire to work in a very fast-paced environment
Ability to turn business and product ideas into engineering solutions
Excellent problem-solving skills, and be able to work independently or as part of a team.
Excited to join a dynamic, hybrid team in either San Francisco or New York City

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, determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, 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:

$160,000 - $192,000 USD

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About Us:

At Scale, we believe that the transition from traditional software to AI is one of the most important shifts of our time. Our mission is to make that happen faster across every industry, and our team is transforming how organizations build and deploy AI. Our products power the world's most advanced LLMs, generative models, and computer vision models. We are trusted by generative AI companies such as OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft, government agencies like the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force, and enterprises including GM and Accenture. We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.

We believe that everyone should be able to bring their whole selves to work, which is why we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability status, gender identity or Veteran status.

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