Senior Meta Designer - Unannouced Project

ABOUT THE ROLE Scale's Global Public Sector team is focused on using AI to address critical challenges facing the public sector around the world. As a Staff Applied AI Engineer, you'll raise the bar for how AI gets built, governed, and evaluated across the team. You'll define standards that other engineers adopt, such as evaluation methodologies for agents and MLOps practices, while acting as the senior technical voice for the most sensitive AI decisions our clients face. What you'll do * Define standards for responsible AI, model governance, and production MLOps that get adopted broadly across the Global Public Sector team * Build or validate the highest-risk parts of strategic AI systems and use those systems to establish standards other teams can adopt. * Architect AI systems designed to prevent systemic failure, and lead the resolution of the most severe incidents tied to model safety or data integrity * Build reusable AI capabilities, such as production-ready agent implementations built on proven architectures, fine-tuned models, or evaluation methodologies, that other engineers and clients can build on * Advise on which new AI developments are worth adopting, and help set the technical roadmap for the domain * Act as the senior technical partner to client leadership on AI strategy * Coach Senior Applied AI Engineers, delegate ownership of technical domains, and build systems and practices that enable multiple teams to deliver safer AI * Contribute to recruiting and representing Scale's AI work externally What we look for * 7+ years of engineering experience, with a multi-year track record owning AI/ML systems in production * Experience judging the quality of training data, selecting the right adaptation method for a given model, evaluating fine-tuning results, and balancing serving cost, latency, and quality trade-offs * Experience owning an AI-powered product end to end, including direct involvement in the AI's behaviour rather than implementing ML work scoped by another team * A track record of establishing standards that outlived the projects they were built for, such as an evaluation methodology, an MLOps practice, or an architectural pattern * Comfort operating with executive-level clients and leadership, including defending a technical position under pressure * Deep experience with regulated, sovereign, or on-premise AI deployment, including hallucination mitigation and auditability Where this role sits Your primary accountability covers production AI behaviour, its backend integration, and the evaluation required for a specific customer. Senior Full-Stack Engineers own the complete user-facing application and its infrastructure. ML Research Engineers lead novel agent architecture and the benchmark methodology used across accounts. The roles work together on agents and evaluation, with accountability set by the scope of the problem. The Public Sector context Location, travel, and vetting requirements vary by assignment. Some UK assignments require BPSS screening and may require SC or DV clearance. Requirements depend on the account and each candidate's circumstances. We discuss assignment-specific eligibility early in the hiring process.   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, Ernst & Young, 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.  We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. 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DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk. Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets. We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets. We operate with respect, curiosity and open minds. The people who thrive here share our belief that it’s not just what we do that matters–it's how we do it. DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus. DRW has an opening for a Senior Software Engineer focused on digital assets. The team builds and operates systems that move and safeguard cryptoassets across the firm — including treasury automation, wallet inventory and reference data, integrations with custody platforms, and operational controls used by digital asset operations. You’ll work directly with those business partners and enjoy building meaningful products from day one. At DRW we strive for an environment where technologists are free to pursue solutions to the problems of the business free from arbitrary management constraints and supported by excellent technical resources. All development teams at DRW believe in rapid deployment and feedback, automated testing, and cohesive, transparent, lightly-coupled service architectures. We ship on Kubernetes with modern CI/CD. Candidates should have strong initiative and proven experience independently driving projects to completion. We work from high-level requirements and value engineers who dig into the business to build the right thing. Responsibilities: - Designing, building, and testing full-stack applications (APIs through UI) used by digital asset operations and related business partners - Partnering with those teams to turn ambiguous business problems into clear technical plans and shipped software - Owning software end-to-end after it ships — we run what we build (deploy, operate, on-call); we don’t hand systems off to a separate ops team - Working across greenfield systems and existing codebases - Building and improving tooling and processes around CI/CD, containers, and Kubernetes / internal cloud - Collaborating with other software teams, trading desks, and business units - Mentoring and raising the bar for engineering practice on a small team - Learning and championing useful new technologies where they fit Desirable Experience: - We are looking for strong senior engineers with crypto or digital-asset systems experience. Deep Python expertise is a meaningful differentiator for this role. - Cryptoassets, digital-asset operations, or custody / wallet platforms (or closely adjacent high-stakes money-movement systems) - DeFi, smart contracts, staking, or other on-chain systems - Full-stack development with Python (FastAPI) - Strong relational data modeling fundamentals - GitOps and Kubernetes - Job orchestration systems (Airflow, Prefect, etc.) For more information about DRW's processing activities and our use of job applicants' data, please view our Privacy Notice at https://drw.com/privacy-notice [https://drw.com/privacy-notice]. California residents, please review the California Privacy Notice for information about certain legal rights at https://drw.com/california-privacy-notice [https://drw.com/california-privacy-notice]. #LI-MM1