Scout AI

Defense Technology

SoftwareEngineer,AgentHarnessing

$170–275k Sunnyvale, California, United States FULL TIME
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Software Engineer, Agent Harnessing at Scout AI. Skills: Agent Harnessing, Full-stack Engineering, Systems Integration, AI Agents. Design agent harness. Advance agent harness”

Industry & Context.

Defense Technology
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years full-stack engineering, Built complex agentic products, Systems-oriented fullstack engineer, Integrating software with physical hardware, SWE fundamentals

Nice to Have

Startup or high-ownership environment, Opinions on model and agent behavior, Exposure to simulation environments, Exposure to game engines, Exposure to robotics middleware

What You'll Do.

Advance agent harness

Integrate fullstack software

Integrate physical hardware

Build simulation environments

Build video-game-like frameworks

Own connectors between AI models

Translate model output

Fine-tune frontier AI models

Build data acquisition pipelines

Turn capability requests into systems

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Scout AI engineers; Warfighters

Full Job Description

The future of defense will be decided by those who field intelligent machines at scale. At Scout AI, we’re developing Fury, the first robotic foundation model for defense, to give U. S. forces overwhelming, adaptable, and autonomous power across every domain. Fury enables human operators to command fleets of robots through natural language, and empowers those machines to sense, decide, and act together as one. This mission will ask everything of us: urgency, precision, and relentless work. The Role As a 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 — fast. Qualification 5+ 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 engi

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