Software Engineering Intern (Summer 2027)

<p>At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions. For 10 years, Scale has provided the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models, and has helped enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. We work closely with industry leaders like Meta, Ernst &amp; Young, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force.</p> <p>Scale's internship is not a side project. Interns own real, shipped work on the same roadmaps as full-time engineers, with mentorship from world-class talent and a culture that values ownership, speed, and truth-seeking. Many of our interns return as full-time Scaliens.</p> <p>Scale’s rapidly growing Global Public Sector team is focused on using AI to address critical challenges facing the public sector around the world. Our core work consists of:</p> <ul> <li>Creating custom AI applications that will impact millions of citizens</li> <li>Generating high-quality training data for national LLMs</li> <li>Upskilling and advisory services to spread the impact of AI</li> </ul> <p><strong>Example Projects:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Build reinforcement learning and post-training data pipelines that power frontier model development</li> <li>Develop evaluation infrastructure that measures model reliability for enterprise and public sector customers</li> <li>Ship agentic AI applications and the tooling that makes them observable, testable, and safe to deploy</li> <li>Ship tools that accelerate the growth of new qualified contributors on Scale's platform</li> <li>Build fraud-detection systems that remove bad actors and keep Scale's contributor base safe and trusted</li> <li>Use models to estimate the quality of tasks and contributors, and guarantee quality on requests at large scale</li> <li>Devise advanced matching algorithms that pair contributors to customers for opt