Scale AI
Senior Data Engineer, Public Sector
$180K–$225K
Washington, DC +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 10, 2026
- Location
- Washington, DC
Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Experience
- 5+ years of relevant work experience in a role requiring application of data modeling and analytic skills.
About the job
Build and maintain analytical and business-intelligence infrastructure, including data warehouses, models, and pipelines, to support decision-making across Scale’s Public Sector business unit.
What you'll do
- Develop and improve data pipelines and scalable analytical solutions with operations, finance, and engineering.
- Audit systems and create data quality tests to ensure accurate reporting.
- Build data warehouse, data mart, and business-intelligence reporting environments and support users transitioning to them.
What they ask for
- Active Secret security clearance; Top Secret preferred.
- Ability to create extensible, scalable data schemas and pipelines for downstream analysis.
- Mastery of SQL and relational databases.
Nice to have
- Top Secret security clearance.
- Experience with programming languages such as Python or R, and tools such as DBT.
Pay
$180,000 — $225,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
SQL, relational databases, Python, R, DBT
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