# Mission Operator - Flight Test Engineer

The future of defense will be decided by those who field intelligent machines at scale. At Scout AI, 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. This mission will ask everything of us: urgency, precision, and relentless work. The Role We’re hiring a Flight Test Engineer to join our Mission Operations team. This role focuses on the development, testing, and operationalization of Scout’s autonomous aerial systems. You will play a critical role in accelerating product development through disciplined flight testing, structured evaluation, and close collaboration with engineering. You will be responsible for designing and executing structured flight test plans, operating unmanned aerial systems (UAS) in real-world environments, collecting and analyzing flight and system data, and generating clear reports that drive engineering decisions. You will also support customer demonstrations and ensure systems are prepared for both

- **Id**: 2897560
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/scout-ai-mission-operator-flight-test-engineer>
- **Role**: Aerospace
- **Role family**: Aerospace
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Paso Robles, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-03-30T23:52:09Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-03-30
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T04:21:57Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 224
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4756
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Relocation assistance
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Defense AI, Foundation Models

## Company

- **Id**: 1838705
- **Name**: Scout AI
- **Domain**: scoutco.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/scoutco>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 93
- **Open postings**: 27
- **Ghost share**: 0.037
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 136
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 150000
- **Max**: 200000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 200000

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 223

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-20T05:23:41Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 25
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.689
- **P room**: 0.36
- **Age days**: 223
- **Expected fill days**: 136
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 200000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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