Full-Time
Robot Technician
Scout AI
11-50 employees
AI foundation model for defense robotics
Compensation Overview
$100k - $150k/yr
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
In Person
Relocation assistance available depending on role eligibility.
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- Several years of hands-on experience with electro-mechanical systems or robotic hardware
- Associate’s degree in a relevant technical field, trade school completion, or equivalent practical experience
- Comfortable working with hardware, tools, and test equipment in a lab and field setting
- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills; able to manage multiple systems and timelines
- Clear communicator who can collaborate across teams and document work thoroughly
- Comfortable lifting and transporting equipment (up to 50 lbs)
- Familiarity with rapid prototyping including the use of 3D printers
- Legal authorization to work in the United States is required. Certain job duties may involve access to U.S. export-controlled information
- Assemble, maintain, and repair robotic platforms across land, air, sea, and space
- Integrate and calibrate sensors, compute, radios, and power systems
- Run diagnostics, perform firmware updates, and ensure system health
- Support field testing and live demonstrations by prepping, staging, and deploying robotic assets
- Perform rapid troubleshooting and reconfiguration in dynamic testing environments
- Maintain detailed records of equipment status, repairs, and system updates
- Collaborate with the engineering team to iterate on platform designs and improve reliability
- Manage robot logistics including staging, transport, and readiness for deployment
- Help shape operational processes and safety standards as we scale
- Experience with robotic assets
- Basic proficiency in Python; familiarity with embedded C/C++
- Familiarity with Linux, ROS, or real-time operating environments
- Experience supporting field tests for autonomous or military-grade systems
- Knowledge of embedded systems, sensor calibration, or electrical integration
Scout AI develops defense technology by building Fury, a Vision-Language-Action foundation model for defense robotics. Fury lets robots perceive their surroundings, reason about situations, and act in the real world, enabling scalable, autonomous robotic teams. The system uses natural language inputs (voice or text) to command and control robots without special operator training, and it supports an end-to-end mission autonomy stack delivered through a modular operating system. This approach sets Scout AI apart by focusing on a purpose-built foundation model for military robotics, enabling straightforward natural-language control and coordinated autonomy rather than manual, single-robot operations. The company aims to give the DoD a decisive military edge with reusable, autonomous robotic systems that can handle complex missions at scale.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$115M
Headquarters
Sunnyvale, California
Founded
2024
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Secured $11M DARPA and DoD contracts with US Army 1st Cavalry Division testing for 2027.
- Raised record $100M Series A on April 29, 2026, from Align Ventures and Draper Associates.
- Demoed end-to-end autonomous strike with explosive drones at California base in 2026.
What critics are saying
- Shield AI's Hivemind wins larger DoD contracts via 2025 Black Dart exercises in 6-12 months.
- Anduril's March 2026 L3Harris acquisition bundles VLA into comprehensive deals, sidelining Scout.
- DoD Replicator mandates Palantir AIP open-source stacks by Q4 2026, commoditizing Fury.
What makes Scout AI unique
- Fury serves as Vision-Language-Action foundation model exclusively for unmanned warfare coordination.
- Enables one-to-many control of mixed air, land, sea, space fleets via natural language.
- Acts as agentic layer generating JSON instructions without modifying vehicle APIs.
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↑ 0%Scout AI, a defence technology startup, has raised funding to develop AI agents designed to control lethal autonomous weapons systems. The company recently demonstrated its technology at a California military base, where AI agents commanded a self-driving vehicle and explosive drones to locate and destroy a target truck. The system uses a large AI model with over 100 billion parameters to interpret mission commands, which then directs smaller models running on individual vehicles and drones. Scout AI removes restrictions from open-source models to enable military applications. The startup is part of a growing wave of companies adapting civilian AI technology for battlefield use. However, experts warn that the unpredictable nature of large language models and AI agents presents significant challenges for military deployment, particularly regarding cybersecurity and system reliability.
Scout AI has publicly unveiled its Fury Autonomous Vehicle Orchestrator, an AI system that coordinates heterogeneous fleets of autonomous air and ground vehicles through natural language commands. The company demonstrated the technology during live operations in Central California using real hardware without scripted control. The Fury foundation model translates a commander's high-level objectives into coordinated actions across multiple unmanned systems. It builds mission plans, tasks each asset in natural language, monitors progress, and adjusts plans in real time whilst maintaining human oversight. The system functions as an agentic interoperability layer, generating structured instructions native to each vehicle's API without modifying underlying autonomy software. Founded in 2024 by Colby Adcock and Collin Otis, Sunnyvale-based Scout AI is backed by Booz Allen Ventures, Align Ventures, Draper Associates, and Perot Jain.
Over the last few years, geopolitical uncertainties have continued to rise, reaching unprecedented levels of volatility and complexity. This has caused a significant impact on global markets, diplomatic relations, and strategic policymaking.A major impact of this uncertainty can also be seen in countries around the world, which are increasing their military spending for the 10th consecutive year to prepare for any eventualities.According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), global defense spending in 2024 reached $2.46 trillion, up from $2.24 trillion in the previous year. 2023's defense spending was stated as the “steepest year-on-year rise since 2009” and the most ever recorded by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).Now, as a result of last year's jump, global defense spending spiked to an average of 1.9% of GDP last year, up from 1.8% in 2023 and 1.6% in the year before that.The budgets of countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Asia, and Europe recorded a significant increase in response to escalating geopolitical conflicts, rising threat perceptions, and deteriorating security environments.Still, the United States remains the world's largest military spender, at around $968 billion, and no one comes close. When it comes to the defense budget for NATO members, the US is followed by Germany at $86 billion, the UK at $81.1 billion, and France at $64 billion.Meanwhile, Asian defense budgets continued to grow at a moderate pace, the same as in the last decade. Japan and Indonesia, in particular, had significant uplifts, but despite that, the region's share of global spending fell from 25.9% in 2021 to 21.7% in 2024 due to stronger uplifts in other regions.However, China's defense budget surged by 7.4% in real terms, outpacing the 3.9% average rate for the rest of the region as the nation modernizes its military. One way this modernization is happening is with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), which is being used to reshape military decision-making.Chinese leader Xi Jinping has made military AI a top strategic priority, and as a result, the People's Liberation Army has invested heavily in scaling up AI.The Rising Trend of AI in MilitaryBy simulating human intelligence processes in computer systems, AI makes machines capable of performing tasks such as learning, problem-solving, and decision-making
Scout AI has emerged from stealth with a $15M seed round led by Align Ventures and Booz Allen Ventures. The company has secured two DoD contracts and unveiled Fury, a Vision-Language-Action foundation model for defense robotics. Fury enables robots to perceive, reason, and act autonomously across various environments. Scout's prototypes, G01 and A01, are already operational. The company aims to integrate Fury into existing platforms, enhancing autonomy without hardware overhauls.