Scale AI13 days ago

Sr. Director, Forward Deployed Engineering

RUB 23,767–29,708per month · before tax

MARKET

16,167 ₽median for this role

Data Scientist · 79 jobs with disclosed pay

5,800half of the offers: 13,333–20,88843,793

Above market · above 84% of offers

New York

Responsibilities

01Lead all US East enterprise customer engagements, serving as the senior technical and delivery executive for Scale’s most strategic accounts
02Partner closely with Sales, Product, and Engineering leadership to support customer acquisition, expansion, and long-term success
03Build and manage forward-deployed teams composed of applied scientists and full-stack software engineers, structured into customer-specific technical pods
04Own end-to-end delivery execution for customer deployments, ensuring reliability, rigor, and measurable business impact
05Guide teams in building production-grade, agentic AI applications for Fortune 500 enterprises
06Establish and enforce an evals-first approach to customer deployments, ensuring performance, safety, and reliability standards are met
07Lead senior-level technical conversations with customer executives, demonstrating Scale’s credibility as a trusted AI partner
08Support technical upsell conversations by articulating architectural tradeoffs, capabilities, and future-state possibilities
09Hire, develop, and mentor forward-deployed leaders and ICs, including training teams on executive-level customer interaction and professional standards
10Help shape Scale’s regional forward-deployed strategy as part of a broader global and US restructuring

0112+ years of experience in software engineering, applied ML, or AI systems, with significant leadership responsibility
02Proven experience leading customer-facing technical teams delivering complex systems for large enterprise customers
03Executive presence and credibility with senior Fortune 500 stakeholders, including experience navigating high-stakes technical discussions
04Strong technical foundation in either applied machine learning or full-stack / distributed systems engineering (strength in one, fluency in the other)
05Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous customer needs into concrete technical solutions and delivery plans
06Experience partnering with sales and product teams in pre-sales, expansion, and delivery contexts
07A track record of building, scaling, and managing high-performing multidisciplinary teams