Staff Software Engineer, Agent Harnessing
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The Role
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Agent Harnessing team, you will build the core architecture that allows AI agents to interact with and control complex, real-world physical systems. This spans agent orchestration, tool integration, low-latency communication layers, and execution environments designed as a platform that Scout AI engineers can extend and depend on.
Responsibilities
- 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
Qualification
- 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
- Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities
- Passion about defense of the United States and its allies
- May be expected to obtain and hold a U.S. Top Secret security clearance
Why Join Scout
Work on the world’s most important frontier, ensuring U.S. and allied dominance in the age of intelligent machines
Be a core part of a team building the first defense-specific robotic foundation model
Collaborate with some of the top engineers in autonomy, AI, and national security
See your work deployed on real systems
Help define the future of intelligent defense systems
Backed by Draper Associates, Booz Allen Ventures, and other top investors
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
- EV charging
- Relocation assistance (depending on role eligibility)
About Scout AI
Private U.S. defense AI company building foundation models that coordinate autonomous robots across air, land, sea, and space.
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