Staff Software Engineer, Agent Harnessing

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