Staff Software Engineer – Agent Harnessing

Scout AI

Staff Software Engineer on Agent Harnessing team developing architecture for AI agents controlling physical systems. Integrating software with hardware to create autonomous solutions in defense.

Posted 7/21/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $230,000 - $380,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in full-stack engineering, particularly in integrating software with physical hardware systems and developing complex agentic products. Proficient in building simulation environments and ensuring robust communication across systems while fine-tuning AI models for real-world applications.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Full-Stack EngineeringIntegration With Physical HardwareSimulation EnvironmentsAI Model Fine-TuningDistributed Systems

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Hard Skills

Full-Stack DevelopmentSystems EngineeringReal-Time PipelinesArchitecture DesignAgent Loop Development

Tools & Technologies

Unreal EngineUnityIsaac SimROSROS2

Industry Keywords

Agentic SystemsOrchestration SystemsTool-Use FrameworksLow-Latency CommunicationProduction Systems

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsUnityUnreal Engine

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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 — fast.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive compensation package including base salary and bonus
Meaningful equity
Premium medical, dental, and vision plans with $0 paycheck contribution
Competitive PTO and company holiday calendar
Catered lunch daily and fully stocked kitchen
Unlimited AI tokens
EV charging
Relocation assistance (depending on role eligibility)