Applied Intuition
Robotics · Autonomous-vehicle software
Robotics · Autonomous-vehicle software
Applied Intuition currently has 63 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Applied Perception Engineering Lead (2), Autonomy Integration Software Engineer, C++ Software Engineer (Autonomous Systems), C++ Software Engineer - Autonomy/Physical AI, Data & ML Pipeline Software Engineer. Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Applied Intuition's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (32%), data (19%), serving infrastructure (14%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Applied Intuition is hiring AI talent in: United States (58 roles), South Korea (2 roles), United Kingdom (1 role).
Job postings at Applied Intuition most frequently reference: model serving, multimodal, inference infra, agent orchestration, vision.
In the past 30 days, Applied Intuition has posted 10 new AI-related roles. That is a +25% change versus the prior 30 days (8 → 10).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer - Defense Tooling Software Engineer role focused on building simulation and AI tooling for autonomous defense systems. Responsibilities include designing and developing features, contributing to system architecture, mentoring junior engineers, and collaborating with US teams and customers. Requires experience with simulation platforms, ML training infrastructure, or developer tooling, and reinforcement learning frameworks. | Data | 7 |
| ML Runtime Optimization Engineer ML Runtime Optimization Engineer focused on optimizing ML model performance and inference on embedded runtime environments for physical AI applications in robotics and autonomous systems. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer - ML Infrastructure Senior Software Engineer focused on ML Infrastructure, building and integrating end-to-end ML pipelines, distributed cloud GPU training, and evaluation systems. The role spans the entire ML lifecycle, working with modeling teams to solve complex data problems at scale and contribute to a company-wide platform for ML training, evaluation, and deployment. |
| ServeEval Gate |
| 7 |
| Senior Neural Rendering Software Engineer Senior Neural Rendering Software Engineer to own end-to-end development and optimization of neural rendering systems, including 3D Gaussian-based representations and other learned scene representations, across multiple products and sensor modalities. Design and scale GPU pipelines using CUDA for neural scene training, inference, and real-time rasterization. Architect and optimize multi-threaded C++ systems for scene management, streaming, scheduling, and CPU-side orchestration of neural and hybrid rendering workloads. Research, prototype, and productionize state-of-the-art neural rendering and reconstruction techniques. | Post-trainServe | 7 |
| Software Engineer - Planning Software Engineer role focused on developing and deploying motion planning modules for autonomous vehicles and mobile robots. The role involves leveraging ML components and working with perception system outputs to create high-performance, kinematically-feasible trajectories for navigation in diverse operational design domains. Requires experience in production software development, C++, and shipping code for robotics. | Agent | 6 |
| Product Manager - DroneStack Product Manager for DroneStack team, which builds autonomous software and hardware for swarms of unmanned aircraft. The role involves owning product strategy, conducting primary research with military operators, driving the transition from program-driven deliveries to scalable products, shaping product design, and setting technical direction. Requires experience shipping products end-to-end, strong research instincts, comfort with deep technical systems, and clear communication. | Ship | 5 |
| Software Engineer - Embedded Systems Software Engineer role focused on designing, developing, and porting autonomous software modules for embedded systems, particularly in the automotive and robotics domains. The role involves working with machine learning engineers to optimize models for embedded performance and interfacing with automotive middleware and hardware accelerators. | — | 5 |
| Autonomy Software Engineer - Acuity Framework Software Engineer role focused on developing core framework software for collaborative autonomy behaviors in multi-domain environments, integrating with domain-specific platforms, and supporting multidisciplinary engineering efforts. The role heavily utilizes agentic coding tools and AI assistants for development acceleration and code quality improvement, with a focus on real-time performance optimization. | — | 5 |
| Solution Engineer - Tooling (Vehicle Intelligence) This role focuses on the tooling and infrastructure for building and validating intelligent systems, specifically in the automotive ADAS/AD domain. The Solution Engineer will act as a technical point of contact, leading demonstrations and integrations of Applied Intuition's simulation and data management toolchain. Key responsibilities include guiding customers through data flywheel design, configuring testing, and translating feedback to the engineering team. The role requires experience in ADAS/AD development, validation, or simulation, familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, and understanding of automotive sensors and data management. While not directly building AI models, the role is deeply involved in the infrastructure and data pipelines that support AI development and validation in a regulated industry. | — | 5 |
| Solution Engineer - Tooling (Vehicle Intelligence) This role focuses on the tooling and infrastructure for building and validating intelligent systems, specifically in the automotive ADAS/AD domain. The Solution Engineer will act as a technical point of contact, leading demonstrations and integrations of Applied Intuition's simulation and data management toolchain. Key responsibilities include guiding customers through data flywheel design, configuring testing, and translating feedback to the engineering team. The role requires experience in ADAS/AD development, validation, or simulation, familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, and understanding of automotive sensors and data management. While not directly building AI models, the role is deeply involved in the infrastructure and data pipelines that support AI development and validation in a regulated industry. | — | 5 |
| Senior Counsel, Privacy & AI Governance This role focuses on leading global privacy and AI governance efforts, advising Product, Engineering, Data Science, Security, and Go-to-Market teams on privacy, data protection, and responsible AI issues. It involves developing policies and frameworks for responsible AI development and deployment, including compliance with emerging regulations like the EU AI Act. The role also requires managing engagements with regulators and standards bodies, and building data governance infrastructure. | — | 5 |
| EMEA Vehicle Operations Lead - SDS This role focuses on the operational deployment and validation of Applied Intuition's SDS for Automotive platform across EMEA. It involves managing customer programs, ensuring readiness, integrating vehicles, executing tests, monitoring performance, and establishing safety protocols to scale advanced driver assistance features towards higher levels of autonomy. The role bridges AI technology with on-road execution and requires strong collaboration with OEMs and internal engineering teams. | — | 5 |
| Solutions Architect - Modeling & Simulation (Defense) Solutions Architect for a defense tech company, focusing on modeling and simulation. The role involves designing solution architectures, translating technical capabilities for government customers, and providing technical feedback to engineering. Requires deep understanding of DoD technical environments and a security clearance. AI/ML is mentioned as a technical breadth area but not the core focus. | — | 5 |
| Solutions Architect - Maritime Defense Solutions Architect role focused on designing and presenting technical solutions for defense customers, bridging customer needs with engineering capabilities. Requires strong technical understanding of software architecture, data infrastructure, AI/ML, and edge computing within DoD environments. | — | 5 |
| Mapping Operations Lead Lead a team responsible for the day-to-day operations of mapping for autonomous vehicles, focusing on data collection, map production, validation, simulation, and field operations. This role involves managing production schedules, triaging issues, and coordinating between mapping specialists, software engineering, and field operations to ensure high-quality HD map data that directly impacts AV stack performance. | — | 5 |
| Technical Lead, Mining Autonomy Platform Tech Lead for the Mining Autonomy Platform, focusing on the foundational platform for autonomous mining vehicles. This role involves low-level vehicle controls, system identification, and building the software platform for health monitoring, diagnostics, telemetry, networking, and deployment. It spans 0->1 bring-up and building for production scale, integrating shared capabilities for mining environments and upholding engineering standards for reliability and safety. | ShipServe | 5 |
| Product Security Engineer This role focuses on embedding security into the product design and development lifecycle for an AI company. The engineer will analyze architectures, conduct security assessments using AI-assisted testing, mature vulnerability management, provide secure coding guidance, collaborate with incident response, and mature SAST/DAST tooling. The role requires experience in security engineering, programming languages, security tools, AI implementation for security, cloud security, and CI/CD pipeline security. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer - Motion Planning (Fallback Stack) Software Engineer role focused on designing and implementing classical motion planning systems for autonomous vehicles, emphasizing deterministic behavior and large-scale evaluation. The role involves building safety-critical planning systems that operate reliably under degraded conditions, using simulation and real-world data for evaluation and tuning. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer - Systems Engineering AI Tooling Software Engineer role focused on building internal platforms and AI workflows for autonomous vehicle development and validation. The role involves designing, developing, and productionizing scalable backend systems and tooling to connect requirements, modeling, validation, and test data, ensuring end-to-end traceability and supporting safety-critical development processes. | Agent | 5 |
| Software Engineer – Autonomy Tooling Software Engineer role focused on developing tooling and infrastructure for autonomy development, including simulation products, ML agent integration, and performance improvement. The role involves working across the stack to build new features and optimize cloud infrastructure. | Agent | 5 |
| Software Engineer - Mapping and Localization Software Engineer focused on mapping and localization for autonomous vehicles and mobile robots, involving design, implementation, and backend infrastructure for map processing and generation. The role contributes to a new autonomy business, emphasizing hands-on contributions to making autonomous systems a reality. | — | 5 |
| GTM Systems Architect This role focuses on designing and implementing the go-to-market (GTM) tech stack, including integrations between Salesforce and other GTM tools. It involves defining data governance, identifying and implementing AI-driven solutions to automate workflows and operational bottlenecks, and partnering with internal stakeholders to select and onboard new tools. The role requires a strong understanding of GTM systems, Salesforce, and quote-to-cash processes. | — | 5 |
| Planning - Technical Lead Lead and mentor a team developing motion planning modules for autonomous vehicles, integrating ML components, perception outputs, and map data for dynamic path planning. Requires C++ and experience with production software teams in planning algorithms. | Agent | 5 |
| Application Engineer - Technical Customer Lead This role is for a Technical Customer Lead who will own account strategy for major enterprise customers, manage executive relationships, and work closely with customers to understand their development needs and propose effective use of Applied's autonomy products. The role requires strong software expertise, domain knowledge, and an execution-driven mindset to ensure customer success and drive problems to resolution. While the company works in physical AI and autonomy, this specific role focuses on customer engagement and product application rather than direct AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer - Performance Optimization Software Engineer focused on optimizing application-layer software for embedded systems in autonomous driving. The role involves analyzing and optimizing compute usage, profiling performance on embedded targets, and collaborating with ML runtime optimization engineers to ensure efficient model inference execution within tight compute budgets and real-world operating conditions. | Serve | 5 |
| Software Engineer - Kafka This role focuses on building the foundational data and machine learning platform for a physical AI company. Responsibilities include data ingestion, processing, storage, labeling infrastructure, and ML infrastructure, handling petabytes of multimodal sensor data. The goal is to support AI research and autonomy stack development, enabling efficient dataset discovery, labeling, and quality assessment. | Data | 5 |
| Immigration Program Specialist This role focuses on managing and scaling a global immigration and mobility program, leveraging AI tools to improve efficiency, speed, and quality of case management and communication. The specialist will own immigration strategy, build mobility programs, drive operational excellence, and design scalable systems for employee and manager support. | — | 5 |
| Data Quality Specialist This role focuses on ensuring the quality and integrity of data collected from autonomous vehicles, which is essential for training and improving self-driving systems. Responsibilities include reviewing and validating data, developing automation scripts for verification, identifying data issues, assisting with data annotation, and collaborating with engineering teams to enhance data collection and verification processes. | — | 5 |
| Systems Engineer, Perception - Autonomy Trucking Systems Engineer role focused on defining, managing, and evaluating perception subsystem requirements for autonomous trucking. Involves working with various teams (SW, HW) and developing V&V pipelines. Requires experience in automotive systems engineering, perception, and sensor modalities, with preferred coding expertise in Python. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer - Validation Toolset Software Engineer focused on building and deploying high-quality automotive validation products. The role involves driving the end-to-end product lifecycle, including data ingestion, KPI visualization, coverage analysis, and ML-based failure finding for autonomous systems. It requires close interaction with external and internal customers and hands-on support across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem deployments. | Agent | 5 |
| System Safety Engineer, Autonomy Trucking This role focuses on defining and managing the safety architecture and requirements for autonomy software and hardware for L4 SDS product lines in the automotive industry. It involves performing safety analyses (FMEA, FTA, STPA), working with verification and validation, and promoting a safety culture. While it deals with autonomous systems and ML safety, the core function is system safety engineering rather than direct AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Application Engineer - Postsales Application Engineer - Postsales role focused on supporting customers using Applied Intuition's AI products for autonomy initiatives. Responsibilities include office hours, Level 1 support, bug reporting, and feature requests, ensuring customers maximize product value. Requires Python/C++/Linux proficiency and debugging skills, with experience in QA and customer interaction preferred. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer - Calibration Software Engineer focused on building and maintaining a calibration pipeline for autonomous vehicles, ensuring multi-sensor, multi-modal world representation for navigation. This role involves implementing calibration processes, managing sensor data lifecycles, and enabling sensor fusion across various sensor types (Camera, Lidar, Radar, IMU, GNSS). | Agent | 5 |
| Marketing Manager Marketing Manager role at an AI company focused on physical AI. Responsibilities include shaping brand understanding, leading marketing programs, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and analyzing campaign performance. Requires tech marketing experience, multi-channel campaign execution, and interest in AI tools. | — | 5 |
| Application Engineer - Technical Customer Lead This role is for an Application Engineer / Technical Customer Lead who will own account strategy for major enterprise customers, manage executive relationships, and collaborate with engineering teams to ensure Applied's autonomy products provide maximum impact. The role requires experience in automotive OEMs or suppliers, autonomous vehicle or robotics development, and customer interaction. | — | 5 |
| Solution Engineer - Vehicle OS This Solution Engineer role focuses on supporting automotive customers in adopting Applied Intuition's Vehicle OS portfolio, which includes middleware, a developer toolchain, and IVI/infotainment systems. The role acts as a technical bridge between customers and internal engineering/product teams, guiding customers through integration, deployment, and issue resolution. While the role touches on AI/ML in the context of "Cabin Intelligence technologies" and "perception systems or AI/ML pipelines applied to in-vehicle experiences" as nice-to-haves, the core responsibilities are centered around automotive software integration and customer support, not direct AI/ML model development or research. | — | 1 |
| Solution Engineer - Vehicle OS This Solution Engineer role focuses on supporting automotive customers in adopting Applied Intuition's Vehicle OS portfolio, which includes middleware, a developer toolchain, and IVI/infotainment systems. The role acts as a technical bridge between customers and internal engineering/product teams, guiding customers through integration, deployment, and issue resolution. While the role touches on AI/ML in the context of "Cabin Intelligence technologies" and "perception systems or AI/ML pipelines applied to in-vehicle experiences" as nice-to-haves, the core responsibilities are centered around automotive software integration and customer support, not direct AI/ML model development or research. | — | 1 |
| Engineering Manager - Axion Engineering Manager for the Axion product family, which is an all-domain autonomy toolchain for simulation, hardware/software integration, MLOps for ATR models, and mission control UIs. The role involves leading a cross-functional engineering group, driving execution, mentoring engineers, defining technical roadmaps, and ensuring quality for autonomy toolchain capabilities. The work influences architecture, scalability, performance, and field-readiness of products used in contested environments. | — | 1 |
| Senior Electrical Engineer - Compute Hardware This role is for a Senior Electrical Engineer focused on designing compute hardware for electric and autonomous vehicles. Responsibilities include designing electrical schematics, guiding PCB layout, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and validating designs. The role requires significant experience in hardware design, digital interfaces, and lab tools. | — | 0 |
| IT Operations Engineer This role is for an IT Operations Engineer responsible for designing and building scalable IT infrastructure, responding to help desk requests, and providing technical support for computer systems, networks, software, and hardware. It requires experience in system administration, server support, project implementation, and desktop support. | — | 0 |
| Middleware Engineer Software Engineer role focused on building core middleware components and services for a software-defined vehicle (SDV) platform. Responsibilities include designing and implementing platform services in C++, developing communication middleware, working on system-level software, applying networking knowledge, and supporting data logging for ADAS development. Requires C++ skills, experience in embedded/automotive/robotics/distributed systems, and exposure to communication middleware. | — | 0 |
| Technical Program Manager - Vehicle OS Technical Program Manager to manage automotive engagements, focusing on software development teams, supplier relationships, and customer communication for EMEA OEMs. Requires technical depth in embedded systems, middleware, or ADAS, and a builder mindset for establishing program structure. | — | 0 |
| Industrial Designer This role is for an Industrial Designer focused on the hardware aspects of physical AI products, specifically for autonomous machines in industries like automotive, defense, and robotics. The designer will develop hardware concepts, build prototypes, and collaborate with engineering and product teams to create user-friendly designs within fast-paced release cycles. | — | 0 |
| Brand Designer This role is for a Brand Designer responsible for creating and maintaining visual assets for a company that provides digital infrastructure for physical AI. The designer will work with marketing, product, and engineering teams to bring the brand to life across various platforms and physical spaces. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer (C++) Software Engineer (C++) role focused on building simulation, tooling, and autonomy infrastructure for physical AI in the defense sector. The role involves designing and implementing high-performance software for a defense data and tooling platform, extending simulation environments, and developing scalable infrastructure for autonomous operations. It requires strong C++ skills, experience with simulation engines, and an interest in autonomy and robotics. | — | 0 |
| Lead Software Engineer (Defense Tech) Lead Software Engineer role focused on integrating and operationalizing Applied Intuition's vehicle intelligence products with defense and government customers. This role involves end-to-end execution of high-stakes projects, bridging customer systems with Applied's solutions, and ensuring mission success in challenging operational environments. Requires strong software engineering background, C++/Python proficiency, and experience with complex system deployment and hardware integration. | — | 0 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer (EMEA) This role is for a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) who will be embedded with strategic customers to deliver net-new features, build standalone applications, and solve complex technical problems at the intersection of the company's platform and the customer's environment. The FDE will own end-to-end delivery, ship production software, work side-by-side with customer teams, bridge product gaps with custom solutions, and help define the FDE function. The role requires strong software engineering experience, full-stack development skills, and experience in customer-facing technical roles, with a preference for experience in autonomy, robotics, simulation, or automotive software. | — | 0 |
| Technical Business Development Lead, Japan Market (US-based) This role is for a Technical Business Development Lead for the Japan Market, based in the US. The individual will act as a technical anchor, bridging HQ with the Japan market, focusing on automotive autonomy capabilities. Responsibilities include customer engagement, understanding requirements, hosting workshops, developing solutions with Product and Engineering teams, and planning revenue strategy. The role requires experience in automotive software technologies and stakeholder management, with a preference for Japanese language fluency. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer role focused on building simulator architecture and products for physical AI in autonomy domains (automotive, defense, trucking, etc.). Requires C++ and Python experience, with a focus on shipping complex software and contributing to design documents. | — | 0 |
| Global Sourcing Manager - Defense This role is for a Global Sourcing Manager in the Defense sector, focusing on procuring hardware components like GPUs, edge-compute modules, and sensors for autonomous defense platforms. It requires expertise in procurement strategies, supplier relationships, and compliance with defense regulations (FAR, DFARS, DCMA). While the company works with AI and advanced hardware, the role itself is in procurement and supply chain management, not direct AI/ML development. | — | 0 |