Senior Software Engineer, Agent Oversight

AI agents represent the next frontier, intelligent systems capable of independent action and complex decision-making. Their deployment promises unprecedented efficiency and innovation. But unleashing this autonomy creates an urgent need: how do we manage these agents effectively, ensure safety, and guarantee alignment with human values when agents operate in the wild? Misaligned or unmonitored agents aren't just a technical glitch; they're a fundamental barrier to trust and adoption. Scale AI's Oversight team is tackling this head-on, building the critical infrastructure for real-time monitoring, intervention, and control. We're defining how humans and autonomous AI coexist safely. Join us if you want to solve one of the most crucial problems in the path towards beneficial AGI.

About the Oversight Team

We’re a small, dedicated team of engineers, researchers, and AI safety/alignment experts focused on ensuring safe and consistent AI decision-making through real-time oversight. We operate as a startup within a startup, developing a critical system that enables enterprises to safely deploy, monitor, and manage AI agents in production. Our Oversight initiative focuses on real-time monitoring, intervention, and continuous learning for AI agents, ensuring reliability, risk mitigation, and user trust as AI becomes more autonomous. This is a high-priority, future-facing effort within Scale, and we’re looking for engineers excited about shaping how AI interacts with the real world.

Responsibilities:

• Own large areas within our product
• Design and build the generalizable oversight platform applicable to various enterprise agents oversights applications
• 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:

• 5+ 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

Culture:

Join a passionate team of engineers and AI experts in a fast-paced, collaborative environment to build a startup within a startup. We value innovation, continuous learning, and a commitment to pushing the boundaries of what's possible in the fast changing world of AI Agents.