AI Engineer Intern
Scout AI
Sunnyvale, CAFresher7m agovia LinkedIn
About the Role
Scout AI is seeking an AI Engineer Intern for Summer 2027 to join the Fury Team. This 10-week internship focuses on developing cutting-edge multimodal models for robotic platforms, with work running on robots in complex, adversarial environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the design, training, and evaluation of state-of-the-art VLA models for robotic systems.
- Help develop and test scalable ML architectures for perception, robotic actuation, multi-agent coordination, and multi-step reasoning.
- Build model experimentation and evaluation pipelines, utilizing synthetic data generation, simulation, and benchmarking environments.
- Translate research insights into code, experiments, and tests for embodied agents.
- Collaborate with mentors and team members on AI model integration and real-time performance tuning.
- Participate in and help plan data collection and model testing on real robotic hardware and simulation platforms.
- Track, digest, and incorporate breakthroughs from the latest literature in VLMs, RL, CV, and autonomous agents.
- Support field trials and mission operations to validate model performance under real-world constraints.
Qualifications
- Currently pursuing a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, AI, or a related field.
- Strong programming skills in Python, and experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow or JAX.
- Familiarity with deep learning application to at least one of: control policies, visual understanding, language modeling, or reinforcement learning.
- Comfortable navigating open-ended problems and proposing technical solutions.
- Bonus: Experience with robotics or real-time systems.
- Bonus: Experience training models on large-scale compute resources.
- Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities.
Why Join Scout
- Work on the world’s most important frontier, ensuring U.S. and allied dominance in the age of intelligent machines.
- Be a core part of a team building the first defense-specific robotic foundation model.
- Collaborate with some of the top engineers in autonomy, AI, and national security.
- See your work deployed on real systems.
- Help define the future of intelligent defense systems.
Benefits
- Competitive Cash Compensation
- Company holiday calendar
- Catered lunch daily and fully stocked kitchen
- EV charging
- Housing stipend assistance (depending on role eligibility)