Staff Software Engineer, Agent Harnessing

Scout AI is developing Fury, the first robotic foundation model for defense, aimed at empowering U.S. forces with intelligent machines. The Staff Software Engineer on the Agent Harnessing team will build the core architecture for AI agents to interact with complex physical systems, focusing on agent orchestration and tool integration.

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