Senior AI Researcher

🕒 July 8

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $200k - $400k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧠 AI Research Scientist

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Scout AI

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2024

🏭 Manufacturing

💼 Consulting

🎖️ Defense

Manufacturing • Consulting • Defense

Scout AI is a defense-focused robotics and artificial intelligence company that develops foundation models and edge-deployable autonomy software for unmanned systems. Its Fury family provides vision-based, platform-agnostic AI for collaborative mission autonomy, enabling robot-to-robot natural language coordination, real-time operation in GPS- and communications-denied environments, low-power COTS hardware integration, and secure over-the-air updates. The company targets military and government customers with AI-enabled unmanned ground vehicles and other robotic platforms.

📋 Description

• Conduct original research in embodied AI, including learning from warfighter demonstration, reinforcement learning, memory, reward, vision-language modeling, and world modeling • Build, test, and benchmark large-scale models for perception, decision-making, and control in simulated and physical environments • Investigate transfer learning and continual learning paradigms across diverse robotic domains • Collaborate with engineering, robotics, and field teams to integrate research into operational systems • Lead research strategy and roadmap across key areas of autonomy and machine learning • Support field tests and data collection campaigns to evaluate system performance in realistic environments

🎯 Requirements

• PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, or a related field plus 4+ years of applied research experience (industry, postdoc, or lab), or 8+ years of equivalent industry research experience without a PhD • Strong publication record in top-tier venues • Deep expertise in one or more of the following: reinforcement learning, imitation learning, vision-language models, sim-to-real, world modeling, or agentic AI • Hands-on experience building and evaluating models for embodied agents or autonomous systems • Proficiency in Python and frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX • Experience working with large-scale datasets and high-dimensional sensor inputs • Demonstrated ability to take ideas from research concept to deployed prototype • Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation package including base salary and bonus • Meaningful equity • Premium medical, dental, and vision plans with $0 paycheck contribution • Competitive PTO and company holiday calendar • Unlimited AI tokens • Catered lunch daily and fully stocked kitchen • EV charging • Relocation assistance (depending on role eligibility)