Senior AI Engineer

Scout AI is seeking a Senior or Staff AI Engineer for its Fury Orchestration Team. The role develops and deploys multimodal foundation models for autonomous robot teams, spanning model training, evaluation, planning, coordination, simulation, and edge inference.

Responsibilities:

• Design, train, and evaluate multimodal foundation models that enable multi-robot mission execution
• Drive model development decisions including model architectures, data mixtures, curriculum design, and training recipes informed by rigorous experimentation
• Curate and generate large-scale training datasets from both synthetic and real-world data engines
• Develop memory, communication, planning, and tool-use capabilities for AI agents operating across teams of robots
• Be obsessed with evaluation: design benchmarks, metrics, and testing methodologies that enable rapid iteration across the team
• Build and improve simulation environments targeted for synthetic data generation, evaluation, and reinforcement learning
• Translate foundational research into deployable, real-time perception and decision-making systems
• Collaborate across engineering, robotics, and mission teams to integrate AI systems with onboard autonomy stacks
• Conduct field trials and mission operations to validate system performance e under real-world constraints