Scale AI

Software Engineer - New Grad

Scale AI$124K — $162K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, EECS, Statistics or equivalent, graduating Fall 2026 or Spring 2027
  • Experience in product engineering, including full-stack web app development and customer interaction
  • Prior internship experience in Product/Software Engineering
  • Demonstrated ability to ship high-quality products at scale
  • Proficiency in handling large data systems
  • Familiarity with Python, Typescript, React, and/or MongoDB

Responsibilities

  • Own and deliver customer-facing software solutions from day one
  • Build AI infrastructure and tools to ensure model reliability and safety
  • Develop systems for fraud detection and contributor evaluation
  • Create efficient UI/UX tools that support a large contributor base
  • Ship applications that enhance customer interaction and retention

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
  • Retirement benefits
  • Learning and development stipend
  • Generous paid time off (PTO)
  • Potential commuter stipend
Full Job Description
Every industry is moving AI to the center of operations, but there is still no clear blueprint for getting from pilot to profit. That is the problem our engineers work on. As a New Grad Software Engineer, you will own meaningful, customer-facing work from day one - shipping products, talking directly to the customers who use them, and iterating fast.
Example Projects
  • Build reinforcement learning and post-training data pipelines that power frontier model development
  • Develop evaluation infrastructure that measures model reliability for enterprise and public sector customers
  • Ship agentic AI applications and the tooling that makes them observable, testable, and safe to deploy
  • Ship tools that accelerate the growth of new qualified contributors on Scale's platform
  • Build fraud-detection systems that remove bad actors and keep Scale's contributor base safe and trusted
  • Use models to estimate the quality of tasks and contributors, and guarantee quality on requests at large scale
  • Devise advanced matching algorithms that pair contributors to customers for optimal turnaround and accuracy
  • Create optimized and efficient UI/UX tooling, in combination with ML algorithms, for 100k+ contributors completing billions of complex tasks
  • Develop new AI infrastructure products to visualize, query, and explore Scale data
  • Build a customer service RAG application that handles thousands of questions a day
  • Integrate a cutting-edge ML model that predicts churn into a customer's retention system
Requirements
  • A graduation date in Fall 2026 or Spring 2027 with a Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field (Computer Science, EECS, Computer Engineering, Statistics)
  • Product engineering experience such as building web apps full-stack, integrating with relevant APIs and services, talking to customers, figuring out 'what' to build and then iterating
  • Previous Product/Software Engineering internship experience
  • Track record of shipping high-quality products and features at scale
  • Experience building systems that process large volumes of data
  • Experience with Python, Typescript, React, and/or MongoDB
Nice to Have
  • Hands-on experience with LLMs, evaluations, or agentic systems - whether from internships, research, or personal projects
  • Open source contributions or a portfolio of shipped side projects
How We Work

Our credos shape how we make decisions and work as a team:
  • Earn Customer Love - trust is earned with every interaction, every delivery, and every problem we solve
  • Team Flow - ideas, energy, and support move freely across teams; optimize for the whole
  • Quality is Our Cheat Code - the systems that deliver quality consistently are a structural advantage
  • Find the 20% - find the inputs that drive the outcomes and execute them completely
  • Write the Market - our research puts us at the frontier, and we bring our partners there first
  • Three Moves Ahead - consider the consequences of consequences, and plan accordingly


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 and may be inclusive of several career levels at Scale; it will be determined during the interview process based on work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, qualifications, 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.

The base salary range for this full-time position in the location of San Francisco is:

$124,000-$162,000 USD

PLEASE NOTE: Our policy requires a 90-day waiting period before reconsidering candidates for the same role. This allows us to ensure a fair and thorough evaluation of all applicants.

About Scale AI

Scale AI is an artificial intelligence company that provides data annotation services to improve machine learning algorithms. The company's platform offers a range of services including image annotation, text annotation, and 3D annotation. Scale AI was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Learn more about Scale AI
Size
500 employees
Industry
Founded
2017

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