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Strategic Projects Lead, Public Sector - Cyber

Scale AIWashington, DC
Full-time3-7
👁️ 0 views📝 0 applicationsPosted 8/16/2026Expires 9/29/2026
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Job Description

Scale AI is at the frontier of the AI industry, improving the world’s leading generative AI and large language models through model evaluations, human-powered supervised fine-tuning datasets, world-class reinforcement learning with human feedback, and more. Scale AI’s Public Sector team is growing in the Generative AI, Public Sector space, and we’re seeking a Cyber focused Strategic Projects Lead to lead high-impact cyber projects that drive experimentation. In this role, you’ll work across operations, engineering, customer engagement, and directly with our clients to produce world-class cyber test and evaluation and training data for Large Language Models for our Public Sector customers. This role offers a rare opportunity to make a meaningful impact at the intersection of cyber, AI and national security. You will build human data labeling pipelines from the ground up, create operational processes to manage and optimize an in-house expert data workforce, and develop novel technology-driven approaches (e.g., scripts, prompt engineering, hybrid data) to improve the quality of both our training and evaluation datasets. You will also own the financial and technical viability of your programs by managing project COGS and partnering with Go-to-Market teams to scope customer engagements through taxonomy design and feasibility validation, ensuring deals are scalable, executable, and economically sound. In addition, you will partner directly with our internal machine learning experts and external stakeholders to ensure our data enables the development of mission-critical applications of AI. Help shape the future of AI by joining a fast-growing team built on exceptional data, tools, and systems. You Will: Develop, build, and maintain the operations infrastructure required to ensure data labeling pipelines are efficient, scalable, and produce high-quality outputs. Partner closely wit

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CybersecurityProject ManagementData LabelingOperations ManagementMachine LearningReinforcement LearningHuman-in-the-Loop SystemsPrompt EngineeringTaxonomy DesignFinancial ModelingGo-to-Market StrategyCustomer EngagementLarge Language ModelsData PipelinesEvaluation DatasetsNational SecurityAI Model EvaluationSupervised Fine-TuningHybrid Data ApproachesScripting

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