Scoutai

Senior AI Researcher

Remote US, Sunnyvale, California · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$200k-$400kDetected 20 hours ago

PythonMachine LearningTensorFlowPyTorchAgentic AIRoboticsResearchAdaptability

About the role

We're hiring a Staff or Senior AI Researcher on the Fury Team to help push the frontiers of embodied intelligence for autonomous defense systems.
Your work will be foundational to the development, training, and deployment of Fury.
This role sits at the intersection of cutting-edge ML research, real-world robotics, and defense.

Build, test, and benchmark large-scale models for perception, decision-making, and control in simulated and physical environments
Collaborate with engineering, robotics, and field teams to integrate research into operational systems
Support field tests and data collection campaigns to evaluate system performance in realistic environments

Proficiency in Python and frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX
Experience working with large-scale datasets and high-dimensional sensor inputs
Demonstrated ability to take ideas from research concept to deployed prototype
Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities
PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, or a related field plus 4+ years of applied research experience (industry, postdoc, or lab), or 8+ years of equivalent industry research experience without a PhD
Strong publication record in top-tier venues
Hands-on experience building and evaluating models for embodied agents or autonomous systems
Work on the world's most important frontier, ensuring U.S. and allied dominance in the age of intelligent machines
Be a core part of a team building the first defense-specific robotic foundation model
Collaborate with some of the top engineers in autonomy, AI, and national security
See your work deployed on real systems
Help define the future of intelligent defense systems
Backed by Draper Associates, Booz Allen Ventures, and other top investors

The stated salary range below represents an estimated base pay only and reflects consideration of multiple compensation factors.
Final salary offers may differ depending on factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience or training background, specialized skills, and business needs.
US Salary Range
$200,000 - $400,000 USD

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
Most full-time positions also include highly competitive equity awards, which form part of Scout AI's overall compensation package.
In addition, Scout AI provides comprehensive, top-tier benefits to full-time employees.
Conduct original research in embodied AI, including learning from warfighter demonstration, reinforcement learning, memory, reward, vision-language modeling, and world modeling
Investigate transfer learning and continual learning paradigms across diverse robotic domains
Lead research strategy and roadmap across key areas of autonomy and machine learning
Deep expertise in one or more of the following: reinforcement learning, imitation learning, vision-language models, sim-to-real, world modeling, or agentic AI

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