Senior Frontier Agents Engineer (Forward Deployed Engineering) is open at Scale AI in San Francisco, CA. The posting gives a salary of $216K - $270K. Posted on May 15, 2026, and still on Scale AI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
The hardest part of enterprise AI isn't building a great model—it's building AI systems that reliably operate inside complex production environments. As a Senior Frontier Agent Engineer (Forward Deployed Engineering) , you'll work directly with strategic enterprise customers to architect, integrate, deploy, and operate production AI systems. You'll combine modern software engineering, distributed systems, cloud…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Scale AI’s careers page.
Hiring at Scale AI
Scale AI has 170 open roles right now. Most are in Engineering, Sales & Business Development and Data & Research. The median advertised salary across its roles with a published range is $220K. See all its roles

