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The future of defense will be decided by those who field intelligent machines at scale. At Scout, 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. We hope you’ll join us.\nThe Role\n We're hiring for a Proposal Manager to drive world-class proposal execution across Scout AI's portfolio of government and commercial opportunities. You'll own the end-to-end proposal lifecycle, coordinating cross-functional teams to produce compliant, compelling responses to RFPs, RFIs, SBIRs, BAAs, and commercial bids. 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