Software Engineer, Agent Harnessing

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 stackIntegrating fullstack software with physical hardware systems and AI agents, ensuring robust, low-latency communication across complex pipelinesBuilding simulation environments and video-game-like frameworks that allow agents to be tested and trained before physical deploymentOwning the connectors between AI models and real-world systems, the layer that translates model output into physical actionFine-tune frontier AI models and build the data acquisition pipelines that feed the training infrastructure powering our agentsWork shoulder-to-shoulder with warfighters to turn capability requests into production-ready agentic systems 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 behaviorYou are a systems-oriented fullstack engineer with hands-on experience integrating software with physical hardware or low-level systemsYou 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 systemsMust be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilitiesPassion about defense of the United States and its alliesMay 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 machinesBe a core part of a team building the first defense-specific robotic foundation modelCollaborate with some of the top engineers in autonomy, AI, and national securitySee your work deployed on real systemsHelp define the future of intelligent defense systemsBacked by Draper Associates, Booz Allen Ventures, and other top investors Benefits Competitive compensation package including base salary and bonusMeaningful equityPremium medical, dental, and vision plans with $0 paycheck contributionCompetitive PTO and company holiday calendarCatered lunch daily and fully stocked kitchenEV chargingRelocation assistance (depending on role eligibility)