Applied Intuition
Software Engineer - Stack (SDS) Tooling
About this role
Applied Intuition seeks a Software Engineer to build simulation and deployment infrastructure for autonomous vehicles across multiple verticals. You'll work on enhancing simulation fidelity, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tooling to accelerate autonomy testing and deployment cycles.
What you'll do
- Design unified simulation interfaces across automotive, defense, trucking, and other autonomy domains
- Integrate neural rendering and perception data into simulation environments to improve fidelity
- Develop and stabilize vehicle deployment pipelines and pre-check systems to reduce operational downtime
- Refactor mapping workflows and implement configuration management services
- Maintain critical-path developer tooling infrastructure supporting autonomy teams
- Support cross-functional projects with autonomy developers, systems engineers, and release teams
What they're looking for
- C++ programming (strong foundation required)
- Production-grade software engineering and shipping code
- Cloud infrastructure management and deployment
- Developer tooling and CI/CD pipeline design
- Data pipelining architectures
- Simulation software (physics-based, RL-based, or reconstruction-based)
- Robotics or autonomous vehicle systems knowledge
- Perception, planning, or controls systems experience
Benefits
- Base salary, equity options, and RSUs
- Comprehensive health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
- 401(k) retirement with employer match
- Learning and wellness stipends
- Paid time off
- In-office work environment in Sunnyvale with flexible scheduling
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Applied Intuition
Applied Intuition builds autonomous vehicle and defense systems software, including motion planning algorithms, simulation infrastructure, and autonomy integration platforms for aerial and ground platforms. The company is hiring for security engineers, robotics/autonomy software engineers, hardware-in-the-loop specialists, and IT operations professionals to support its growing physical AI operations.
- Website
- appliedintuition.com
Likely interview questions
- Describe your experience shipping production-grade C++ code at scale—what was your role and what challenges did you solve?
- Tell us about a time you maintained or improved critical developer tooling infrastructure; what was the impact?