Scout AI
Staff Software Engineer, Agent Harnessing
$230K–$380K
Sunnyvale, CA +1 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 21, 2026
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA
Remote - Experience
- 10+ 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 platform that enables AI agents to interact with, control, and train on complex physical systems for defense applications.
What you'll do
- Design and advance the agent harness, including agent loops, tools, prompts, and execution environments.
- Integrate software, AI agents, and physical hardware, including low-latency communication and connectors that translate model outputs into physical actions.
- Build simulation and training environments, fine-tune AI models, and develop data acquisition pipelines for agent training.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of full-stack engineering experience.
- Experience building 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
$230K – $380K (USD, base salary)
Tools
Unreal, Unity, Isaac Sim, ROS/ROS2
AI focus
Develop agent orchestration and tool-use infrastructure, integrate AI models with physical systems, fine-tune frontier AI models, and build data pipelines and simulation environments for agent training and testing.
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