
Scaleout delivers federated learning solutions, enabling organizations across industries to develop and deploy collaborative AI models that bring intelligence to every device, from cloud to edge, while keeping sensitive data secure and local. Our FEDn framework simplifies this process from local development to full-scale deployment, serving regulated industries like IIoT, Automotive, and Defense.

Scaleout delivers federated learning solutions, enabling organizations across industries to develop and deploy collaborative AI models that bring intelligence to every device, from cloud to edge, while keeping sensitive data secure and local. Our FEDn framework simplifies this process from local development to full-scale deployment, serving regulated industries like IIoT, Automotive, and Defense.
Core product: Scaleout Edge — enterprise platform for federated learning and decentralized ML across edge, cloud, and secure domains
Open framework: Maintains FEDn, an open federated learning framework (FEDn SDK and FEDn Enterprise for production)
Privacy focus: Positions federated learning to enable ML without centralizing raw data, targeting regulated and sensitive-data use cases
Funding disclosed: Seed: €1.5M (announced Nov 23, 2023); later round: 35 MSEK (company announcement)
Origin: Spinoff from Uppsala University
Team size: Approximately 22 employees (company snapshot)
Federated learning and distributed AI for privacy-sensitive, regulated, and distributed data environments (edge, cloud, secure domains).
Artificial intelligence / Federated learning / Edge computing
1.5 million EUR
Company announcement lists investors including Navigare Ventures, SEB:s Utvecklingsstiftelse, Almi Invest, and Uppsala University Invest.
35 MSEK
Company announcement describes the round as a new investment to accelerate cloud-edge AI and lists existing investors including Navigare Ventures, ALMI Invest, Uppsala University Invest, the Beijer Foundation, Mikael Johnsson, Michael Lantz, and Fredrik Wallsten.
“Includes institutional and strategic backers; Fairpoint Capital joined as a strategic investor and co-lead alongside Navigare Ventures; other named investors include ALMI Invest and Uppsala University Invest.”
About Scaleout
Scaleout’s
mission is to enable its customers to develop machine learning solutions without compromising on data ownership and privacy.
Our main product is Scaleout Edge – a distributed AI platform designed to orchestrate machine learning across edge-to-cloud. Being built natively for federated learning, our software helps AI developers in mission-critical organizations tackle challenges like privacy, security, compliance, and data accessibility. By bringing machine learning to the data, we enable our customers to train, deploy and govern machine learning models as close to the edge as possible, be it on or near vehicles, drones, edge clouds, or industry robots.
We are a deep tech, dual-use company serving customers in mission-critical organizations, including defence, automotive and industrial IoT. As a member of the Scaleout core developer team your work will have an impact by pushing the frontier of ML privacy, cybersecurity and embodied AI forward.
Scaleout is supported by leading deep tech investors such as Navigare Ventures, Fairpoint Capital, ALMI Invest, Uppsala University Invest and the Beijer Foundation.
Our Workplace
Our team at Scaleout, made up of experts in data science, distributed systems and software engineering combines research expertise from top-ranked Uppsala University with business experience from companies such as Google, BCG and Viacom. You will be part of a team that has AI research in its DNA, with a clear goal to impact industry by bringing new edge computing and privacy-enhancing technologies to market. We provide an innovative environment where your work is critical to pioneering AI projects, particularly focusing on federated learning.
We offer a hybrid workplace with office locations in Uppsala, Stockholm and Göteborg. You will be expected to be available for limited travel between sites, and to customer facilities and to international conferences. For this role we expect that you have the Uppsala site as your home base.
About the Role
We are looking for a hands-on engineer to join our core development team. Your primary focus will be on ensuring that the systems we build to make AI safe and compliant are themselves robust, secure, and operationally elegant — from cloud data centers to edge devices. You will work closely with the CISO to contribute to and execute our compliance and certification roadmap. As a person, you always do your best to get the job done also when it requires you to go outside of your technical comfort zone.
Key Responsibilities:
Who You Are
Above all else we seek passionate individuals who are eager to tackle complex problems, and that do their best work in a fast-paced and collaborative environment. You are internally motivated, exercise a great deal of self-leadership, and enjoy assuming responsibility both for your own work and for the team. We believe that you hold an advanced degree in computer science or a related field.
The successful candidate must be a Swedish citizen eligible to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
Job requirements
This role has the following set of required and optional qualifications.
Must have Qualifications:
Meriting Qualifications:
The successful candidate must be a Swedish citizen eligible to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
How to Apply
Please send your CV a cover letter to to andreas@scaleoutsystems.com . Your cover letter should highlight your experiences and skills relevant to the job requirements, as well as your motivation for applying. Alternatively apply on LinkedIn.
We look forward to learning more about you and exploring the potential fit with our team.