Senior Software Engineer, Pay & Incentives

Company: Scale AI, Inc.
Location: New York
Posted on: June 2, 2025

Job Description:

Senior Software Engineer, Pay & IncentivesAt 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).About Data EngineOur 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.About our Pay & Incentives teamThe Pay & Incentives team is responsible for ensuring that contributors are paid fairly for their efforts, and making sure that our pay strategies drive the right incentives to get high quality work quickly.The ideal person is a natural entrepreneurial engineer who can take an ambiguous scope and lead the execution of outcomes, doing what it takes to hit them incl coding, talking to customers, defining requirements, etc. If you have a background in payment infrastructure or marketplace incentives, we'd love to have you be a core part of Scale's business.Responsibilities:

• Own large areas within our product
• Work closely with cross-functional partners like finance, product, analytics, software engineers, and operations to identify opportunities for business impact, understand, refine and prioritize requirements for pay and incentive schemes
• 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
• Provide critical input in the Pay & Incentives team's roadmap and technical direction.
• Inspire and mentor less experienced engineersRequirements:
  • At least 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 CityPlease 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:$188,000 - $225,600 USD
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