Hiring: Software Engineer, Agent Harnessing Company: Scout AI Location: Sunnyvale, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 07:38:16 Employment Type: Full-time About the job Experience: •5+ years of full-stack engineering experience (startup or high-ownership environment preferred) Required Skills: •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 •5+ 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 Compensation: •$170,000 - $380,000 / year •Competitive compensation package including base salary and bonus Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!