Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer (Forward Deployed), GPS

About the role

Scale AI's Global Public Sector team builds AI solutions for public sector clients worldwide, creating custom AI applications, generating training data for large language models and offering upskilling and advisory services. As a Forward Deployed Full-Stack Software Engineer, you will work directly with public sector counterparts to build full-stack AI applications that solve their most pressing challenges. The role is based in Kuwait City.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with public sector clients to scope, collect feedback and implement solutions, including spending up to two weeks per month in client offices.
• Architect production-grade applications that integrate AI models with full-stack frameworks, from interactive UIs to backend APIs and systems.
• Deploy and manage infrastructure in cloud environments, ensuring integrity, security, scalability and reliability.
• Contribute to core platform features reusable across international client use cases.
• Work with design, product and data teams to build applications aligned with the technical architecture.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
• 5+ years of post-graduation full-stack engineering experience.
• Proven ability to architect scalable, production-grade applications and a strong grasp of cloud environments and infrastructure health.
• Experience deploying, maintaining and troubleshooting complex end-to-end solutions in customer infrastructure.
• Self-starting approach, comfortable with ambiguous requirements, and driven by async communication methods.
• Nice to have: past experience in a forward deployed or dedicated customer engineer role, and cross-functional experience with operations.

Required skills

• React (required)
• TypeScript, Next.js, Python, Node.js
• PostgreSQL or MongoDB
• Docker, Kubernetes
• Azure, AWS or GCP
• Experience building solutions with LLMs and understanding of the Gen AI landscape
• Nice to have: proficiency in Arabic