Company

Infrastructure for sovereign AI

Scaleout builds software infrastructure for machine learning in distributed environments. Our platform, Scaleout Edge, lets organisations train and manage models across decentralised systems without moving sensitive data. Data stays where it belongs while models improve collectively.

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Mission

Our mission

AI systems are increasingly built on data that cannot be centralised. Medical records, industrial data, defence systems and connected devices all operate in environments where data must remain local.

Our mission is to make it possible to train and operate AI across these environments without moving sensitive data. By enabling organisations to collaborate on machine learning while retaining full control over their data, we help build more secure, sovereign, resilient and trustworthy AI systems.

Scaleout was founded in 2018 by researchers from Uppsala University working on large-scale distributed systems and scientific computing.

100+
Published papers
7
PhDs
2
Associate professors

Team

Our team

Scaleout is a team of data scientists, machine learning engineers, software engineers, and entrepreneurs. The team combines academic research and industry experience, with backgrounds at Google, Saab, BCG, Oracle and MySQL.

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Andreas Hellander

Co-Founder / CEO

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Salman Toor

Co-Founder / CTO

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Daniel Zakrisson

Co-Founder / COO

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Jens Frid

Co-Founder / CMO

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Ebba Kraemer

Co-Founder / CCO

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Fredrik Wrede

Head of Engineering

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Mattias Åkesson

Senior FL Engineer

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Stefan Hellander

CISO

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Niklas Holmström

Software Developer

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Viktor Valadi

ML Engineer

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Jonas Frankemölle

ML Engineer

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Katja Hellgren

ML Engineer

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Carl Andersson

ML Engineer

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David Hovstadius

ML Engineer

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Sigvard Dackevall

ML Engineer

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Muhammad Usama

ML Researcher

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Rasmus Maråk

Research Engineer

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Lucas Beerens

MLOps Engineer

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Robin Kurtz

Senior ML Researcher

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Srihaarika Vijjappu

ML Engineer

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Magnus Blåudd

Principal Software Developer

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Noah Wassberg

Research Engineer

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Svea Ottestig

Operations

Careers

Work with us

We're always looking for people who want to build infrastructure for AI in the world's most demanding environments.

Master’s thesis projects

Explore five research projects in federated learning, efficient edge AI and AI security.

Communication-Efficient Federated Learning via Dynamic Quantization-Aware Training

Investigate how dynamic low-bit training can reduce communication costs in federated learning, adapting precision to network conditions and client data while preserving model accuracy.

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Context-aware Mixture of Expert models for computational efficiency

Explore how context-aware routing, quantization and pruning can reduce the memory and compute costs of vision models on resource-constrained edge devices.

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Heterogeneous Federated Learning via Adaptive Sub-Network Extraction

Develop adaptive sub-networks tailored to each device’s capacity, enabling devices with different compute and memory resources to train a shared model collaboratively.

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Domain-adaptation with context-aware Mixture of Experts models

Study how vision models can adapt to new domains by adding or swapping experts, using context to guide routing while balancing new learning with knowledge retention.

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Security profiling and defense against active gradient inversion in object detection

Evaluate how active gradient inversion attacks can expose training images in federated object detection, and investigate client-side defenses and the trade-offs between information leakage and detection accuracy.

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To apply, send your CV, academic transcripts and a brief motivation statement referencing relevant project or coursework experience to viktor@scaleoutsystems.com. See each project description for prerequisites and research questions.