Scout AI
Software Engineer, Agent Harnessing
$160K–$280K
Sunnyvale, CA · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jun 4, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of full-stack engineering experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities; may be expected to obtain and hold a U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
About the job
Build the agent-harnessing platform that connects AI agents and models to physical systems, including orchestration, simulation, and low-latency execution.
What you'll do
- Design and advance agent loops, tools, prompts, execution environments, and capabilities.
- Integrate software, AI agents, and hardware; build simulation and testing environments for agents.
- Fine-tune frontier AI models and build data acquisition pipelines for agent training.
What they ask for
- Built complex agentic products or infrastructure, such as agent loops, orchestration systems, or tool-use frameworks.
- Hands-on experience integrating software with physical hardware or low-level systems.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals in architecture, distributed systems, and real-time pipelines.
- Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities.
Nice to have
- Startup or high-ownership environment experience.
- Exposure to simulation environments, game engines (Unreal, Unity, Isaac Sim), or robotics middleware (ROS/ROS2).
Pay
$160K – $280K (base salary)
Tools
Unreal, Unity, Isaac Sim, ROS/ROS2
AI focus
Build agent infrastructure for controlling physical systems; fine-tune frontier AI models and develop training-data pipelines.
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