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 — fast.

Qualifications

• 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.

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).