Software Engineering Intern (Summer 2026)

At Scale, our mission is to accelerate the development of AI applications. For 9 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.

Example Projects:

• Ship tools to accelerate the growth of new qualified contributors on Scale’s labeling platform

• Build methodical fraud-detection systems to remove bad actors and keep Scale’s contributor base safe and trusted. 

• Use models to estimate the quality of tasks and labelers, and guarantee quality on requests at large scale.

• Devise advanced matching algorithms to match labelers to customers for optimal turnaround and accuracy.

• Build methods to automatically measure, train, and optimally match labelers to tasks based on performance

• Create optimized and efficient UI/UX tooling, in combination with ML algorithms, for 100k+ labelers to complete billions of complex tasks

• Develop new AI infrastructure products to visualize, query, and explore Scale data 

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 Computer Science/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 Typescript, React, Python and/or MongoDB

• Be available for a Summer 2026 (May/June start dates) internship 

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 Us:

At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions. Our products provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. We work closely with industry leaders like Meta, Cisco, DLA Piper, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force. 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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