5 months ago
Sunnyvale, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
Base Salary
$120k - $170k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and ship full-stack features from concept to production.
- Design and implement scalable backend services and APIs.
- Develop intuitive, high-performance frontend applications.
- Integrate AI/ML capabilities into real user workflows.
- Improve system architecture, reliability, and developer experience.
- Work directly with users and stakeholders to refine product direction.
- Contribute to infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and monitoring.
- Help shape engineering culture, processes, and technical standards.
Requirements
- 2–5 years of full-stack engineering experience, preferably in a startup or high-ownership environment.
- Proficiency with modern frontend frameworks such as React or Next.js.
- Experience building backend systems with Node.js, Python, Go, or similar technologies.
- Solid understanding of databases, APIs, and distributed systems.
- Experience shipping production software end-to-end.
- Ability to work across unfamiliar parts of the stack.
- Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package including base salary and bonus, plus 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 and EV charging.
- Relocation assistance depending on role eligibility.
- Work is deployed on real robotic systems in defense environments.
About Scout AI
Scout AI builds defense-focused AI software for unmanned ground, air, sea, and space systems. Its core product, the Fury foundation model, enables operators to command robotic platforms in natural language and coordinate autonomous behaviors; Scout also integrates the software with fielded payloads and compute. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, the privately held company is venture-backed by investors including Booz Allen Ventures and Draper Associates.
