Staff Software Engineer – Agent Harnessing

🕒 July 21

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $230k - $380k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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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

• Designing and advancing the agent harness (agent loop, tools, prompts, execution environment, capabilities) used across Scout AI's agentic stack. • Integrating fullstack software with physical hardware systems and AI agents—ensuring robust, low-latency communication across complex pipelines. • Building simulation environments and video-game-like frameworks that allow agents to be tested and trained before physical deployment. • Owning the connectors between AI models and real-world systems—the layer that translates model output into physical action. • Fine-tune frontier AI models and build the data acquisition pipelines that feed the training infrastructure powering our agents. • Work shoulder-to-shoulder with warfighters to turn capability requests into production-ready agentic systems — fast.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of full-stack engineering experience (startup or high-ownership environment preferred) • You have built complex agentic products or infrastructure—agent loops, orchestration systems, tool-use frameworks. You have strong opinions on model and agent behavior. • You are a systems-oriented fullstack engineer with hands-on experience integrating software with physical hardware or low-level systems. • You have exposure to simulation environments, game engines (Unreal, Unity, Isaac Sim), or robotics middleware (ROS/ROS2). • You have strong SWE fundamentals—architecture, distributed systems, real-time pipelines—and love shipping production systems.

🏖️ 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 • Catered lunch daily and fully stocked kitchen • Unlimited AI tokens • EV charging • Relocation assistance (depending on role eligibility)