Software Engineering Intern (Summer 2026)

Scale AI

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• Develop and ship tools for Scale's AI data labeling platform, including fraud detection systems, quality estimation models, and advanced matching algorithms to optimize labeler productivity and task accuracy • Required qualifications: Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, EECS, Computer Engineering, or Statistics with graduation in Fall 2026 or Spring 2027, plus previous internship experience and proficiency in Typescript, React, Python, and/or MongoDB • Build full-stack web applications and large-scale data processing systems while working on product engineering problems like determining what features to build and iterating based on customer feedback • Summer 2026 internship (May/June start) offering $9,500-$10,500 monthly salary in San Francisco, New York, or Seattle, with opportunity to work on AI infrastructure products serving 100k+ labelers • Join a Series F-funded company working on frontier AI data and evaluation tools for industry leaders and government agencies across generative AI, autonomous vehicles, and defense applications

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 reference the job posting's subtitle for where this position will be located. For pay transparency purposes, the base salary range for this internship position in the locations of San Francisco, New York, Seattle is: $9,500-$10,500 per month.

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.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation in the application or recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at accommodations@scale.com. Please see the United States Department of Labor's Know Your Rights poster for additional information.

We comply with the United States Department of Labor's Pay Transparency provision.

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Company:
Scale AI
Location:
San Francisco, CA
Job Type:
Internship
Experience Level:
Entry
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