4 months ago
Base Salary
$145k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and deploy software for advanced drone hardware and autonomous flight and delivery operations.
- Develop robotic perception, planning, and control software.
- Develop dynamic memory, communication, and tool-use faculties for AI agents.
- Build and maintain robotics infrastructure, simulation, and testing environments.
- Integrate cameras, LiDAR, and IMUs into robotic systems.
- Implement and optimize localization, mapping, and navigation algorithms.
- Develop autonomy pipelines from perception to action.
- Collaborate with hardware, AI, and product teams to ship robotic capabilities.
- Improve system reliability, performance, and real-world robustness.
- Contribute to deployment and monitoring of robotic systems in production environments.
Requirements
- Strong programming skills in C++, Python, or similar languages.
- Experience developing robotics systems or autonomy software.
- Experience working with real-world robotics hardware or simulation environments.
- Strong debugging and system-level problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work across multiple layers of the robotics stack.
- Legal authorization to work in the United States is required; certain duties may involve access to U.S. export-controlled information.
Benefits
- 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
About Scout AI
Scout AI is a frontier AI lab for U.S. defense. It was founded in 2024 by Colby Adcock and Collin Otis with a mission to deploy mission-ready AI agents across unmanned systems for the Department of War and its allies. Its Fury foundation model transforms uncrewed ground, air, sea, and space platforms and payloads into intelligent, collaborative teammates that multiply warfighter effectiveness. Scout AI is based in Sunnyvale, CA and is backed by leading institutional investors including Booz Allen Ventures, Align Ventures, Draper Associates, and Perot Jain.