Scout AI
Defense AI · Foundation Models
$115Mtotal raised · 3 rounds on record
26open roles
$180kmedian advertised pay
$100Mlatest round · Series A · Apr 2026 · 6 mo ago
Overview
Scout AI is a defense technology company developing Fury, a robotic foundation model for defense. Its vision-language-action models take camera data and text prompts to let human operators command fleets of robots in natural language. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States.
How Scout AI hires
Truth index
A 93/100
Median time to fill
136 days
Ghost roles
4%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Scout AI scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 28 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 4% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 136 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Funding and backers
Total raised
$115M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$100M
Series A · Apr 2026 · 6 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
30
+9 posted in 30 days
Grants
$2M
1 grant · CORDIS
The money's age
Fresh money
6 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
32/100
hiring for its size, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Apr 29
Raised a round Series A $100M · TechCrunch
Apr 28
First sales or marketing role Proposal Manager
Apr 18, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $15M
Apr 16, 2025
Won a grant $2M · CORDIS
Aug 2024
Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series A | Apr 2026 | $100M | — | TechCrunch |
| Venture round | Apr 2025 | $15M | — | login.aviationweek.com |
| Grant | Apr 2025 | $2M | — | CORDIS |
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$180k
Typical range
$60k – $380k
Open positions
22
18
Jobs
Intern
11.1%
Middle
27.8%
Senior
44.4%
Staff
16.7%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intern | 2 | $130k | $130k |
| Middle | 5 | $150k | $115k – $200k |
| Senior | 8 | $280k | $170k – $380k |
| Staff | 3 | $340k | $160k – $380k |
Highest paying role
Staff Software Engineer, Agent Harnessing
$380k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Scout AI
By role, level and city, against the market · 22 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
44/100
Stable
Open positions
31
8 opened / 36 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
137 days
faster than 8% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
29% ▼
Field & Service
14% ▼
AI/ML
10% ▲
Backend
10% ▲
Solutions
10% ▲
Hardware
5% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added SolidWorks to stack
Oct 2026
Added Fusion 360 to stack
Oct 2026
Added Altium Designer to stack
Oct 2026
Added CMMC to stack
Oct 2026
Added Jira to stack
Oct 2026
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Scout AI over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
46
Postings analysed
28
Stack modernity
83/100AI adopter
Languages
Python64%
C++25%
Bash11%
Node JS11%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch21%
JAX14%
ROS14%
ROS214%
Cloud & platforms
AWS11%
Azure11%
Windows11%
Linux7%
AI & ML
LLM7%
VLM7%
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News
Scout AI Raises $100 Million Series A To Develop Foundation Model For Unmanned Warfare
Scout AI, a Sunnyvale-based defense AI company, has raised an oversubscribed $100 million Series A round, co-led by Align Ventures and Draper Associates, to accelerate development of Fury, its foundation model for unmanned warfare. The company describes t
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Scout AI Raises $100M Series A to Build the AI Brain for Unmanned Warfare
/PRNewswire/ -- Scout AI Inc. ("Scout AI") today announced an oversubscribed $100 million Series A financing to accelerate development of Fury, its foundation...
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Colby Adcock's Scout AI raises $100M to train its models for war: We visited its bootcamp
We visited Scout AI's training ground where it's working on AI agents that can help individual soldiers control fleets of autonomous vehicles.
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MAX Security & BigData Boutique Success Story
Learn how AWS Partner BigData Boutique collaborated with MAX Security to develop SCOUT AI, an AI Agent enabling accelerated decisions based on real-time intelligence.
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Scout AI Awarded Army UxS Autonomy Contract
Scout AI Inc. ("Scout") today announced it has been awarded a major contract under the U.S. Army
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Booz Allen invests in Scout AI to advance autonomous defence
Booz Allen corporate venture capital arm, has invested in Scout AI to advance future autonomous defence capabilities.
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Scout AI: Investment Raised From Booz Allen
Booz Allen Hamilton announced today that its corporate venture capital arm, Booz Allen Ventures, has invested strategically in Scout AI to modernize legacy robotic systems.
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Booz Allen invests in Scout AI to advance physical AI for defense missions
By integrating advanced AI into defense robotics, Scout AI brings reasoning and control to a wide spectrum of uncrewed systems.
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
Sunnyvale
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Sunnyvale
United States
HQ
Scout HQ
20 open roles 16 posted in 90 days 40% engineering 15% remote 50-200 est. staff $242k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Backend, Field & Service
1225 Elko Dr
Paso Robles
United States
Regional office
Forge
8 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $121k Avg Salary
hires for Aerospace, Field & Service, Early Careers
1225 Elko Dr