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# Staff Software Engineer

- **Company:** Scout AI
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $230,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Systems, Middleware, Game Engine, Systems Integration, Multi-Agent Systems, Low Latency
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/staff-software-engineer-agent-harnessing-scout-ai-8780293

## About the Role

* 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

## Description

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., * 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, * 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


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