At Scale, we believe that the transition from traditional software to AI is one of the most important shifts of our time. Our mission is to make that happen faster across every industry, and our team is transforming how machine learning can build innovative products. Our products provide access to human-powered data for hundreds of use cases and are used by industry leaders such as Open AI, Lyft, Meta, GM, Samsung, Airbnb, NVIDIA, and many more. We’ve recently raised $325 million in Series E funding at a valuation of $7B+ and are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.
Performant model code, high quality data, and robust evaluation methods form the foundation of an AI system. Scale’s leading end-to-end solutions for the ML lifecycle based on real-world data will continue to set the bar for the data-centric AI movement. Scale’s Generative AI team focuses on building models to accelerate AI adoption for some of the largest companies in the world.
Your focus will be on developing Models as a Service using a variety of Machine Learning techniques. You will be involved end-to-end from coordinating with operations to create high quality datasets to productionizing models for our customers. If you are excited about shaping the future of the data-centric AI movement, we would love to hear from you!
You will:
- Apply state of the art models, developed both internally and from the community, in production to solve problems for our customers and data labelers.
- Work with product and research teams to identify opportunities for ongoing and upcoming services.
- Explore approaches that integrate human feedback and assisted evaluation into existing product lines.
- Work closely with customers - some of the most sophisticated ML organizations in the world - to quickly prototype and build new deep learning models targeted at multi-modal content understanding problems.
Ideally you’d have:
- At least 3 to 5 years of model training, deployment and maintenance experience in a production environment.
- Strong skills in NLP, LLM and deep learning.
- Solid background in algorithms, data structures, and object-oriented programming.
- Experience working with cloud technology stack (eg. AWS or GCP) and developing machine learning models in a cloud environment.
Nice to haves:
- Experience in dealing with large scale AI problems, ideally in the generative-AI field.
- Demonstrated expertise in large vision-language models for diverse real-world applications, e.g. classification, detection, question-answering, etc.
- Published research in areas of machine learning at major conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, EMNLP, CVPR, etc.) and/or journals.
- Strong high-level programming skills (e.g., Python), frameworks and tools such as DeepSpeed, Pytorch lightning, kuberflow, TensorFlow, etc.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to operate in a cross functional team environment.
The base salary range for this full-time position in our hub locations of San Francisco, New York, or Seattle, is $176,000 - $240,960. Compensation packages at Scale include base salary, equity, and benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position, determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, interview performance, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Scale employees are also granted Stock Options that are awarded upon board of director approval. You’ll also receive benefits including, but not limited to: Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, a learning and development stipend, and generous PTO. Additionally, this role may be eligible for additional benefits such as a commuter stipend.
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 EEO poster and EEO poster supplement for additional information.
PLEASE NOTE: We collect, retain and use personal data for our professional business purposes, including notifying you of job opportunities that may be of interest. We limit the personal data we collect to that which we believe is appropriate and necessary to manage applicants' needs, provide our services, and comply with applicable laws. Any information we collect in connection with your application will be treated in accordance with our internal policies and programs designed to protect personal data.
The goal of the ML team at Scale is to develop machine learning solutions advancing the company mission. Our current focus areas are computer vision (2D/3D detection, 2D/3D segmentation, object tracking), meta-learning (e.g. semi-supervised learning, active learning), and Natural Language Processing. You’ll be working on a combination of deeply technical ML applications in production and cutting edge research problems. Working at Scale will give you opportunities to work with our wide customer base which includes leading research teams and exposure to a wide range of problems within machine learning.
We are building a large hybrid human-machine system in service of ML pipelines for dozens of industry-leading customers. Our machine learning models form the basis for Scale’s expansion and future product strategy. We currently complete billions of tasks a month, and will continue to grow to support more complex use cases and more advanced ML powered products.
Example Projects:
- Research and develop machine learning solutions to assist humans in the loop.
- Aid in the creation of high quality ground truth data with speed and accuracy.
- Work with public Large Language models to benchmark and make custom versions for internal use cases.
- Take state of the art models developed internally and from the community, use them in production to solve problems for our customers and taskers.
- Take models currently in production, identify areas for improvement, improve them using retraining and hyperparameter searches, then deploy without regressing on core model characteristics.
- Work with product and research teams to identify opportunities for improvement in our current product line and for enabling upcoming product lines.
- Work with massive datasets to develop both generic models as well as fine tune models for specific products.
Required to have:
- Currently enrolled in a PhD or MS Program with a focus on Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision with a graduation date in Fall 2024 or Spring 2025
- Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages, including: Python, Javascript, or similar
- Ability to speak and write in English fluently
Ideally you’d have:
- Have had a previous internship around Machine Learning, Deep Learning, or Computer Vision
- Experience as a researcher, including internships, full-time, or at a lab
- Publications in top-tier journals such as NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR, AAAI, etc. or contributions to open source projects
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 EEO poster and EEO poster supplement for additional information.
PLEASE NOTE: We collect, retain and use personal data for our professional business purposes, including notifying you of job opportunities that may be of interest and sharing with our affiliates. We limit the personal data we collect to that which we believe is appropriate and necessary to manage applicants’ needs, provide our services, and comply with applicable laws. Any information we collect in connection with your application will be treated in accordance with our internal policies and programs designed to protect personal data.
The goal of the ML team at Scale is to develop machine learning solutions advancing the company mission. Our current focus areas are computer vision (2D/3D detection, 2D/3D segmentation, object tracking), meta-learning (e.g. semi-supervised learning, active learning), and Natural Language Processing. You’ll be working on a combination of deeply technical ML applications in production and cutting edge research problems. Working at Scale will give you opportunities to work with our wide customer base which includes leading research teams and exposure to a wide range of problems within machine learning.
We are building a large hybrid human-machine system in service of ML pipelines for dozens of industry-leading customers. Our machine learning models form the basis for Scale’s expansion and future product strategy. We currently complete billions of tasks a month, and will continue to grow to support more complex use cases and more advanced ML powered products.
Example Projects:
- Research and develop machine learning solutions to assist humans in the loop.
- Develop systems that improve the creation of high quality ground truth data with speed and accuracy.
- Work with public Large Language models to benchmark and make custom versions for internal use cases.
- Take state of the art models developed internally and from the community, use them in production to solve problems for our customers and taskers.
- Take models currently in production, identify areas for improvement, improve them using retraining and hyperparameter searches, then deploy without regressing on core model characteristics.
- Work with product and research teams to identify opportunities for improvement in our current product line and for enabling upcoming product lines.
- Work with massive datasets to develop both generic models as well as fine tune models for specific products.
Required to have:
- Graduating Fall of 2023 or Spring of 2024 from a PhD or MS Program with a focus on Machine Learning, Deep Learning, AI, Natural Language Processing, or Computer Vision
- Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages, including: Python, Javascript, or similar
- Ability to speak and write in English fluently
Ideally you’d have:
- Have had a previous internship around Machine Learning, Deep Learning, or Computer Vision
- Experience as a researcher, including internships, full-time, or at a lab
- Publications in top-tier journals such as NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR, AAAI, etc. or contributions to open source projects
The base salary range for this full-time position in San Francisco is $144,000 - $172,800. Compensation packages at Scale include base salary, equity, and benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position, determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, interview performance, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Scale employees are also granted Stock Options that are awarded upon board of director approval. You’ll also receive benefits including, but not limited to: Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, a learning and development stipend, and generous PTO. Additionally, this role may be eligible for additional benefits such as a commuter stipend.
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 EEO poster and EEO poster supplement for additional information.
PLEASE NOTE: We collect, retain and use personal data for our professional business purposes, including notifying you of job opportunities that may be of interest and sharing with our affiliates. We limit the personal data we collect to that which we believe is appropriate and necessary to manage applicants’ needs, provide our services, and comply with applicable laws. Any information we collect in connection with your application will be treated in accordance with our internal policies and programs designed to protect personal data.
The goal of a Machine Learning Engineer at Scale is to bring techniques in the fields of computer vision, deep learning and deep reinforcement learning, or natural language processing into a production environment to improve Scale's products and customer experience. Our research engineers take advantage of our unique access to massive datasets to deliver improvements to our customers.
We are building a large hybrid human-machine system in service of ML pipelines for Federal Government customers. We currently complete millions of tasks a month, and will grow to complete billions of tasks monthly.
You will:
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Take state of the art models developed internally and from the community, use them in production to solve problems for our customers and taskers.
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Take models currently in production, identify areas for improvement, improve them using retraining and hyperparameter searches, then deploy without regressing on core model characteristics
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Work with product and research teams to identify opportunities for improvement in our current product line and for enabling upcoming product lines
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Work with massive datasets to develop both generic models as well as fine tune models for specific products
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Build the scalable ML platform to automate our ML service
- Be a representative for how to apply machine learning and related techniques throughout the engineering and product organization
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Be able, and willing, to multi-task and learn new technologies quickly
Ideally You’d Have:
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US citizenship and US Government Security Clearance is a requirement (TS/SCI preferred)
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Extensive experience using computer vision, deep learning and deep reinforcement Learning, or natural language processing in a production environment
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Solid background in algorithms, data structures, and object-oriented programming
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Strong programing skills in Python or Javascript, experience in Tensorflow or PyTorch
Nice to Haves:
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Graduate degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence specialization
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Experience working with cloud technology stack (eg. AWS or GCP) and developing machine learning models in a cloud environment
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Experience with generative AI models
The base salary range for this full-time position in our hub location of Washington DC, is $200,800 - $240,960. Compensation packages at Scale include base salary, equity, and benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position, determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, interview performance, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Scale employees are also granted Stock Options that are awarded upon board of director approval. You’ll also receive benefits including, but not limited to: Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, a learning and development stipend, and generous PTO. Additionally, this role may be eligible for additional benefits such as a commuter stipend.
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 EEO poster and EEO poster supplement for additional information.
PLEASE NOTE: We collect, retain and use personal data for our professional business purposes, including notifying you of job opportunities that may be of interest. We limit the personal data we collect to that which we believe is appropriate and necessary to manage applicants' needs, provide our services, and comply with applicable laws. Any information we collect in connection with your application will be treated in accordance with our internal policies and programs designed to protect personal data.
Scale's Generative AI Data Engine powers the most advanced LLMs and generative models in the world through world-class RLHF/RLAIF, data generation, model evaluation, safety, and alignment.
As the Manager of the Generative AI team, you will be responsible for managing and leading a group of talented researchers and engineers. Your primary focus will be to leverage your expertise in LLMs, generative models, and other foundational models to create and execute an AI roadmap which will help Scale accelerate our customers' Generative AI initiatives forward. This is an exciting opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies and collaborate with industry-leading professionals.
We are building a large hybrid human-machine system in service of ML pipelines for dozens of industry-leading customers. We currently complete millions of tasks a month and will grow to complete billions monthly.
You will:
- Manage a team of highly effective researchers and engineers. Provide guidance, mentorship, and technical leadership to a team of researchers and engineers working on Generative AI projects. Develop and evaluate methods for integrating machine learning into human-in-the-loop labeling systems to ensure high-quality and throughput labels for our customers.
- Implement and improve on state-of-the-art models developed internally and from the community and put them into production to solve problems for our customers and taskers.
- Work with product and research teams to identify opportunities for improvement in our current product line and for enabling upcoming product lines.
- Work with massive datasets to develop both generic models as well as fine-tune models for specific products.
- Work with customers and 3rd party research groups to understand their goals and define how we can enable them.
- Build a scalable ML platform to automate our ML services, including automated model retraining and evaluation.
- Be able and willing to multi-task and learn new technologies quickly.
- Must be able to commute to the San Francisco Office 1-2x weekly.
Ideally you'd have:
- 7+ years of full time work experience using LLM, deep learning, deep reinforcement learning, or natural language processing in a production environment. Especially training foundational AI models through pre-training, fine-tuning, and RLHF.
- A vision for where the field should go and what Scale should do to enable it.
- Strong programming skills in Python, experience in PyTorch or Tensorflow
- Experience with MLOps and the automation of model training & evaluation
- Experience working with cloud technology stack (eg. AWS or GCP) and developing machine learning models in a cloud environment
- Solid background in algorithms, data structures, and object-oriented programming
- Deep appreciation for building high-quality, robust, reusable machine-learning software
- Degree in computer science or related field
Nice to haves:
- Graduate degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence specialization
- Publication experience in the field or related topics.
- Experience with model optimization techniques for both training and inference
The base salary range for this full-time position in our hub locations of San Francisco, New York, or Seattle, is $176,000 - $250,000. Compensation packages at Scale include base salary, equity, and benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position, determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, interview performance, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Scale employees are also granted Stock Options that are awarded upon board of director approval. You’ll also receive benefits including, but not limited to: Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, a learning and development stipend, and generous PTO. Additionally, this role may be eligible for additional benefits such as a commuter stipend.
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 EEO poster and EEO poster supplement for additional information.
PLEASE NOTE: We collect, retain and use personal data for our professional business purposes, including notifying you of job opportunities that may be of interest. We limit the personal data we collect to that which we believe is appropriate and necessary to manage applicants' needs, provide our services, and comply with applicable laws. Any information we collect in connection with your application will be treated in accordance with our internal policies and programs designed to protect personal data.
Scale’s Foundational ML team conducts research on new foundational capabilities, with the goal of innovating models and algorithms that unlock net-new capabilities for Scale’s applied-ML teams and the broader AI community. Scale is uniquely positioned at the heart of the field of AI as an indispensable provider of training and evaluation data and end-to-end solutions for the ML lifecycle. You will work closely with Scale’s Generative AI team focused on building models to accelerate and optimize AI adoption for some of the largest companies in the world.
At Scale, our research is driven by product needs. Your focus will be on developing new foundational models, algorithms, and forms of supervision for Generative AI. You will lead writing, publishing, and adoption of your work internally with applied teams. You will be involved end-to-end from the inception and planning of new research agendas. You'll be creating high quality datasets, implementing models and associated training and evaluation stacks, producing high caliber publications in the form of peer-reviewed journal articles, blogs, white papers, and internal presentations & documentation. If you are excited about shaping the future AI via fundamental innovations, we would love to hear from you!
You will:
- Evaluate, adapt, and develop new state of the art language and/or multimodal foundation models
- Work with applied ML and product teams to identify opportunities for service improvement or new capabilities
- Explore approaches that integrate human feedback and assisted evaluation into existing product lines
- Work closely with internal customers to prototype, build, and integrate your models into production service
Ideally you’d have:
- A track record of high-caliber publications in peer-reviewed machine learning venues (e.g. NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, EMNLP, CVPR, AAAI etc.)
- At least 3 to 5 years of model training, deployment and maintenance experience in a production environment.
- Strong skills in NLP, LLMs and deep learning.
- Solid background in algorithms, data structures, and object-oriented programming.
- Experience working with cloud technology stack (eg. AWS or GCP) and developing machine learning models in a cloud environment.
- Strong high-level programming skills (e.g., Python), frameworks and tools such as Pytorch lightning, kuberflow, TensorFlow, transformers, etc.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to operate in a cross functional team environment and to broadcast your work efficiently and with splash
Nice to haves:
- Experience in dealing with large scale AI problems, ideally in the generative-AI field.
- Demonstrated expertise in large language models for diverse real-world, production applications, e.g. question-answering, generation, classification, etc.
The base salary range for this full-time position in our hub locations of San Francisco, New York, or Seattle, is $240,000-$280,000. Compensation packages at Scale include base salary, equity, and benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position, determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, interview performance, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Scale employees are also granted Stock Options that are awarded upon board of director approval. You’ll also receive benefits including, but not limited to: Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, a learning and development stipend, and generous PTO. Additionally, this role may be eligible for additional benefits such as a commuter stipend.
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 EEO poster and EEO poster supplement for additional information.
PLEASE NOTE: We collect, retain and use personal data for our professional business purposes, including notifying you of job opportunities that may be of interest and sharing with our affiliates. We limit the personal data we collect to that which we believe is appropriate and necessary to manage applicants’ needs, provide our services, and comply with applicable laws. Any information we collect in connection with your application will be treated in accordance with our internal policies and programs designed to protect personal data.
Scale's Federal customer base is growing rapidly, and you will be on the front lines of machine learning (ML) operations to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence (AI) applications for the Department of Defense and other national security customers. As Saint Louis Operations Site Lead, you have complete ownership of the outcomes of Scale’s St. Louis AI Center. You will be at the forefront of leading Scale’s Federal labeler workforce and managing site operations across unclassified and classified work sites. This role is for someone who gets excited about leading people, is highly organized, has a strong prioritization ability, can run to ground complex processes with multiple stakeholders, and can develop and grow an organization.
You will:
- Lead a 300+ full time employee and contractor workforce of data quality specialists (labelers) working on unclassified and classified government data
- Oversee site operations across two sites to include recruiting, human resources, security, office management, IT, finance, etc.
- Lead Scale’s growth in STL to potentially doubling over the next 1-2 years
- Own outcomes in their entirety: from ideation and strategy to in-the-weeds delivery of results
- Lead customer-facing presentations on the capabilities and growth of the Saint Louis workforce
- Coach and develop leaders in the workforce to overcome hurdles and achieve high-impact outcomes
- Be a relentlessly positive cultural agent to professionalize the labeler workforce
Ideally you’d have:
- 5+ years of experience in a general manager, operations, growth, or consulting role requiring a blend of operational, strategic, and cross-functional work
- A strong orientation towards outcomes and a history of being scrappy when it counts
- An easygoing interpersonal style and ability to work and build relationships with a wide range of people
- Experience leading small teams and managing multiple, complex work streams
- A fundamental understanding of AI/ML training
Nice to haves:
- MBA or relevant master’s degree
- Background in intelligence work, particularly geospatial analysis
- Active U.S. security clearance (Secret or Top Secret - SCI)
As this role has complete ownership of the outcomes of Scale’s St. Louis AI Center, it is expected to be an onsite-first role. Scale will provide relocation as necessary.
The base salary range for this full-time position in our hub location of St.Louis, Mo is $136,000 - 163,200. Compensation packages at Scale include base salary, equity, and benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position, determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, interview performance, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Scale employees are also granted Stock Options that are awarded upon board of director approval. You’ll also receive benefits including, but not limited to: Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, a learning and development stipend, and generous PTO. Additionally, this role may be eligible for additional benefits such as a commuter stipend.
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 EEO poster and EEO poster supplement for additional information.
PLEASE NOTE: We collect, retain and use personal data for our professional business purposes, including notifying you of job opportunities that may be of interest. We limit the personal data we collect to that which we believe is appropriate and necessary to manage applicants' needs, provide our services, and comply with applicable laws. Any information we collect in connection with your application will be treated in accordance with our internal policies and programs designed to protect personal data.