# Mission Operator - Flight Test Pilot

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 Pilot to lead the drone development and demo side of our Mission Operations team, Swarm Forge: our AI mission commander, directing a swarm of smaller drones to search, identify, and strike with minimal human input. You'll lead a drone operator team, own the flight test pipeline, and run the live customer demonstrations to ensure systems are prepared for both internal testing and external deployment. You'll work in close partnership with our Flight Test Engineer: the Flight Test Engineer owns the technical depth of test design and instrumentation, and you own execution, the team, and everything customer-facing. Together you decide what gets tested, in what order

- **Id**: 4134142
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/scout-ai-mission-operator-flight-test-pilot>
- **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**: 2026-11-12T01:16:07Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T16:46:30Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4058
- **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**: 30
- **Ghost share**: 0.033
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 136
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 100000
- **Max**: 115000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 115000

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

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

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T03:24:36Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 136
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 115000
- **Is top pay**: no

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