AI Engineer - Fury Team

The future of defense will be decided by those who field intelligent machines at scale. At Scout, we’re developing Fury — the first robotic foundation model for defense — to give U.S. forces overwhelming, adaptable, and autonomous power across every domain. Fury enables human operators to command fleets of robots through natural language, and empowers those machines to sense, decide, and act together as one. It’s not just a leap in autonomy, it’s a force multiplier built for real-world conflict. This mission will ask everything of us : urgency, precision, and relentless work.

The Role

We're looking for an AI Engineer to join the Fury Team with a deep passion for building next-generation autonomous systems. You’ll work across the stack of perception, reasoning, and control, helping architect and deploy cutting-edge multimodal models that will become the cognitive engine of our robotic platforms. Your work will run on robots in complex, adversarial environments. Expect to move fast, test ideas aggressively, and break new ground as we create the first robotic foundation model for defense.

We’re a startup. You’ll be moving fast, context-switching daily, and helping define the culture and process as we go. This is a rare opportunity to come in early and architect the future of defense.

Responsibilities

• Design, train, and evaluate state-of-the-art VLA models for robotic systems
• Implement scalable architectures for multimodal model fusion, continual learning, and domain adaptation
• Develop dynamic memory, communication, and tool use faculties for AI agents
• Translate foundational research into deployable, real-time perception and decision-making systems
• Collaborate across engineering, robotics, and mission teams to integrate ML pipelines with onboard autonomy
• Develop and maintain codebases for training, simulation, and real-world inference
• Conduct experiments to benchmark performance and robustness in diverse, unstructured environments
• Track, digest, and incorporate breakthroughs from the latest literature in VLMs, RL, CV, and autonomous agents
• Support field trials and mission operations to validate model performance under real-world constraints

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