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).
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| Technical Program Manager This role is for a Technical Program Manager to drive business-critical multi-disciplinary engineering projects from concept through execution. The candidate will manage complex releases and customer requests, working cross-functionally with Engineering, Design, Customer, and Product teams. The company focuses on physical AI for industries like automotive, defense, and trucking. | — | 0 |
| Technical Business Development - Automotive This role is a Technical Business Development position focused on the automotive domain, supporting business development by partnering cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing teams. The role involves engaging with potential customers, understanding their requirements, hosting workshops, developing customer solutions, and planning revenue strategy. It requires experience in automotive interest, stakeholder management, customer engagement, and automotive software technologies. | — | 0 |
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| Senior Technical Recruiter This role is for a Senior Technical Recruiter who will partner with engineering leadership to design and execute hiring strategies for software and ML engineers. The role involves leveraging AI tools for recruiting automation, leading interview processes, and providing data-driven insights on funnel health. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of technical recruiting experience, strong business partnership skills, and experience managing complex searches in a fast-paced environment. | — | 0 |
| Fleet Operations Specialist This role is for a Fleet Operations Specialist focused on managing frontline operators and ensuring efficient execution of daily shift activities for autonomous vehicle testing operations. Responsibilities include leading operators, overseeing vehicle fleet maintenance and logistics, developing daily run plans, managing escalations, and ensuring compliance with safety and legal standards. The role requires experience in operations, field team leadership, and vehicle/fleet coordination, with a strong emphasis on safety and problem-solving. | — | 0 |
| System Safety Engineer, Vehicle OS This role focuses on vehicle-level safety analysis and safety case development for driving functions and platform integration. The engineer will translate safety analysis into requirements, apply ISO 26262 standards, and collaborate with HW/SW teams to ensure safety implementation. Responsibilities include developing hazard analysis, FMEA, and safety case artifacts for road-driving features. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer Low Speed Motion Planning & Control Planning Software Engineer role focused on designing and implementing motion planning and controls modules for autonomous vehicles, requiring experience in control theory, numerical optimization, and production software development with C++. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer - Low Speed Motion Planning & Control Software Engineer focused on building motion planning and controls modules for autonomous vehicles, including characterizing vehicle dynamics and applying control theory. The role involves deploying solutions on real vehicles and potentially using ML for vehicle dynamics modeling. | — | 0 |
| Technical Recruiter - New Grad This role is for a Technical Recruiter focused on new graduates, aiming to build a career in recruiting within the AI and autonomous systems industry. The position involves recruiting, interviewing, representing the company, becoming an industry expert, identifying procedural improvements, providing metrics, and managing recruiting events. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer - Middleware Software Engineer role focused on developing core middleware components and services for a software-defined vehicle (SDV) platform, requiring C++ expertise for high-performance communication and system management solutions in distributed systems, high-speed networking, and functional safety architecture. The role involves designing and implementing platform services, communication middleware (SOME/IP, DDS, Protobuf/gRPC), AUTOSAR Adaptive Platform functional clusters, networking, and system management functions. | — | 0 |
| Systems Architect - POSIX This role focuses on developing and maintaining POSIX-based middleware and embedded software systems for the automotive industry, aiming to create a universal software foundation for next-generation vehicle intelligence. The Systems Architect will work across the entire software stack, from application layer to hardware abstraction, designing scalable, modular, and deterministic solutions for real-time or safety-critical systems. The goal is to enable automakers to deliver software at scale and drive the transition to a software-defined future. | — | 0 |
| Systems Architect - RTOS This role focuses on developing and maintaining real-time operating system (RTOS) middleware and embedded software systems for the automotive industry, aiming to enable next-generation vehicle intelligence and software at scale. The position involves working across the entire software stack, from application layer to hardware abstraction, and ensuring real-time performance and safety requirements are met for complex, mission-critical software. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer – Motion Planning and Control Software Engineer role focused on motion planning and control for autonomous vehicles, involving design, development, and maintenance of software solutions, including behavior and motion planning with collision avoidance systems. Requires experience with C++, various algorithms (search, path planning, motion planning, obstacle avoidance, MDPs, etc.), ROS, and Linux. | — | 0 |
| Business Systems Engineer This role is for a Business Systems Engineer who will be the lead architect of the corporate data ecosystem, bridging business functions and software. The engineer will architect a seamless data ecosystem connecting back-end finance and HR systems to provide a unified, real-time view of global operations, enabling data-driven strategic decisions. The role involves architecting and integrating core enterprise systems (Oracle NetSuite, Workday, Pigment), building scalable data pipelines, automating workflows, leading iPaaS tool selection, standardizing data, optimizing performance, and mentoring junior staff. | — | 0 |
| Communications Manager Communications Manager for a company that builds digital infrastructure for physical AI, focusing on representing subject matter expertise in Japan and Korea, and executing technical and non-technical communication strategies to build thought leadership in the autonomous driving industry. | — | 0 |
| Business Development - Construction Business Development role focused on the construction domain, involving customer engagement, solution development, and revenue strategy. Requires experience in construction/mining B2B sales and cross-functional collaboration. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer - Workbench Software Engineer role focused on streamlining developer workflows and deployment infrastructure for complex automotive systems, building HIL/SIL validation pipelines and leveraging cloud-based CI/CD to scale embedded software development. | — | 0 |
| Chief Engineer - Trucking This is a general management role for the trucking industry, focusing on business development, customer engagements, and ensuring product delivery and revenue targets are met. The role requires deep understanding of customer needs for autonomy and SDV, and architecting solutions with the company's product. While AI is mentioned as a driver for the machines, the core responsibilities are product management, business strategy, and customer relationship management, not direct AI/ML model development or research. | — | 0 |
| Strategic Consultant This role is for a Strategic Consultant at Applied Intuition, a company focused on physical AI for moving machines. The consultant will advise Automotive OEM partners, bridging business challenges and technical solutions. Responsibilities include leading strategic engagements, conducting market analysis, structuring business problems related to digital transformation and ADAS/AD deployment, collaborating with Product and Engineering on roadmaps, and developing go-to-market strategies for enterprise deals. The role requires experience in management consulting with an automotive focus and strong executive relationship-building skills. | — | 0 |
| Embedded Software Engineer (Vehicle OS) Embedded Software Engineer role focused on developing and integrating software for production vehicles, working with C/C++ and Simulink. The role involves customer interaction, project management for vehicle integration timelines, and influencing technical strategy. Requires MSc in CS/robotics, 5+ years of shipping embedded software, and fluency in English and Japanese. | — | 0 |
| Lead Software Engineer - Physical AI (Defense) Lead Software Engineer for Physical AI in the Defense sector, focusing on integrating Applied Intuition's vehicle intelligence products with military and government platforms. The role involves end-to-end execution of high-stakes projects, bridging customer systems with Applied's solutions, and tackling challenges in software engineering, system deployment, and hardware integration. | — | 0 |
| Program Manager - People Operations Program Manager for People Operations at Applied Intuition, focusing on managing the employee lifecycle, HR policies, compliance, and data analysis to improve people programs. This role requires strong program and stakeholder management skills, with a solid understanding of HR policies and employment law. | — | 0 |
| People Data Analyst This role focuses on delivering actionable workforce insights and supporting strategic decision-making across the People team and the broader business by collecting, consolidating, analyzing, and reporting on data related to employee engagement, retention, organizational effectiveness, and talent development. The position involves developing analytical models and dashboards, presenting data-driven recommendations, designing reporting solutions, implementing data cleaning processes, creating executive presentations, and acting as a point of contact for internal and external auditors for HR-related controls. | — | 0 |
| Contracts Manager This is a Contracts Manager role within the Legal team at Applied Intuition, a company focused on physical AI. The role involves negotiating and drafting contracts, collaborating with cross-functional teams, managing the contract administration lifecycle, and developing legal resources. It is not an AI/ML-focused role. | — | 0 |
| Director of Strategic Growth - Defense This role is for a Director of Strategic Growth focused on the defense sector, involving relationship building with government stakeholders, shaping programs, and identifying strategic opportunities. It is not directly involved in building or shipping AI/ML models. | — | 0 |
| Information Systems Security Engineer (ISSE) Information Systems Security Engineer (ISSE) responsible for the security posture, engineering, and compliance of classified information systems, with a focus on Special Access Program (SAP) environments. Requires implementing and maintaining security controls, liaising with government agencies, performing vulnerability scanning, and responding to security incidents. Must have a minimum Secret Clearance and DoD 8140/8570 IAM level II certification. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer role focused on designing and developing full-stack, infrastructure, robotics, and graphics solutions for autonomy development workflows in industries like automotive, defense, and trucking. The role involves working across the entire stack, collaborating with domain experts, and influencing product decisions. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Operating Systems This role is for a Senior Software Engineer focused on building a new full-stack operating system for future vehicles and products in the physical AI space. Responsibilities include defining architecture, writing performance-critical code, leading feature implementation, and collaborating with hardware partners and open-source communities. The role requires deep expertise in C/C++, Unix/Linux kernels, and systems development. | — | 0 |
| Senior Embedded Software Engineer This role focuses on building a new full-stack operating system, specifically an embedded firmware platform and Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) using Rust and the Pigweed architecture. The engineer will be responsible for architecting and developing highly reliable embedded software, integrating the Rust toolchain into CI/CD, and working with Pigweed developers on pw_kernel. The domain is robotics, with a focus on safety-certified systems. | — | 0 |
| Defense - Senior Forward Deployed Engineer This role is for a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer in the defense sector, focusing on integrating and operationalizing Applied Intuition's vehicle intelligence products with defense and government customers. It requires strong software engineering skills, system deployment, and hardware integration, acting as a technical bridge between the company's platforms and customer environments. The role is not primarily AI/ML development but rather the deployment and support of AI-enabled systems in challenging operational settings. | — | 0 |
| Solutions Architect This role focuses on managing complex engineering projects for automotive customers, identifying gaps, and implementing best practices. The Solutions Architect will define project milestones, manage timelines and budgets, and serve as a point of contact for customers, coordinating internal and external teams to ensure technical alignment and successful project completion. The role involves understanding customer pain points and ensuring solutions meet their needs, but does not involve direct AI/ML model development or research. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer, AOSP - Core OS Senior Software Engineer role focused on developing and maintaining the Android (AOSP) operating system and foundational system software for automotive platforms, including BSP, firmware, and system software for ARM64 compute platforms. The role involves working with embedded systems, Linux kernels, and hypervisor technologies to deliver high-performance features for vehicle OS. | — | 0 |
| Senior Android Software Engineer - Platform Develop and maintain Android/Android Automotive OS middleware systems, working across application, middleware, and hardware layers to build a universal software foundation for automakers to deliver vehicle intelligence and software at scale. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer - Developer Infrastructure Software Engineer role focused on building and improving core application libraries, frameworks, and developer infrastructure, including build systems and CI/CD, to enhance developer productivity and velocity within a company focused on physical AI. | — | 0 |
| Solution Engineer This role is for a Solution Engineer who acts as a technical bridge between automotive customers and Applied Intuition's engineering teams. The engineer will support Vehicle OS engagements, translate customer requirements into technical solutions, lead technical discussions, and manage project milestones to ensure customer success with SDV and AD/ADAS initiatives. The role requires strong communication, problem-solving skills, and experience working with customers. | — | 0 |
| Contingent Workforce Manager This role manages the contingent workforce program, focusing on operational efficiency, compliance, and strategic initiatives. It involves overseeing onboarding/offboarding, managing vendor relationships, addressing contractor inquiries, and developing scalable workflows and reporting tools. The role requires strong partnerships with People Ops, Legal, and Recruiting. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer - Over-the-Air Updates Software Engineer role focused on designing, developing, and maintaining scalable Over-the-Air (OTA) update platforms for connected devices. This involves building secure delivery mechanisms, cloud infrastructure, and device management systems for firmware, applications, and configuration updates across large fleets, supporting mission-critical applications in various industries. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer - Telematics Software Engineer role focused on developing telematics platforms for connected devices, processing real-time telemetry data, and building scalable data processing pipelines using technologies like Kafka and Spark. The role involves backend development, cloud-native applications, and data storage/analytics solutions. | — | 0 |
| Solution Engineer Solution Engineer role focused on supporting customers with Applied Intuition's Vehicle Intelligence products, bridging the gap between customer requirements and internal engineering teams. Requires a mix of software expertise, domain knowledge, and customer interaction skills, primarily within the automotive industry. | — | 0 |
| Security Architect This role focuses on designing and implementing cybersecurity architectures for automotive systems, ensuring compliance with ISO/SAE 21434 and UN Regulations 155/156. It involves threat analysis, risk assessments, and designing hardware-rooted security controls. While it mentions developing security requirements for AI/ML systems, the core function is security architecture for automotive platforms, not building AI/ML models themselves. | — | 0 |
| Vehicle Testing Specialist This role focuses on executing test plans for autonomous vehicle (AV) and Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) development, coordinating testing procedures, and reporting on outcomes. It involves working closely with software engineers and operations teams to ensure professional and efficient testing, with a strong emphasis on safety. | — | 0 |
| Systems Engineer Systems Engineer with automotive background in ADAS and/or autonomous driving, responsible for driving the entire system engineering workflow, defining system requirements, generating safety concepts, and implementing a V&V strategy. The role involves working with simulation and data tools to assure progress towards automotive series-release, and understanding regulations and standards. | — | 0 |
| Autonomy Software Engineer – Path Planning (C++) Software Engineer role focused on developing, integrating, and testing core path planning capabilities for autonomous aerial platforms (Group 1-5) for commercial and defense applications. Requires experience in motion planning algorithms (RRT*, A*) and C++/Python development. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer - Developer Tooling Software Engineer focused on improving developer experience and deployment processes for physical AI products, working across engineering teams to enhance workflows, develop new tools, and increase the velocity and reliability of the software development and deployment lifecycle. Responsibilities include designing and building tools, libraries, and frameworks, creating scalable deployment tools, optimizing build times, improving software deployment and data collection, and identifying bottlenecks. | — | 0 |
| Solution Engineer This role supports customers with Applied Intuition's Vehicle Intelligence products, bridging the gap between customer technical requirements and the engineering team. It involves project management and ensuring the platform solutions advance customers' SDV and ADAS initiatives. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Integration Engineer Senior Software Integration Engineer role focused on application development and integrations for customer projects within the VehicleOS group, involving C/C++ development, customer interaction, and cross-functional collaboration for intelligent vehicles. | — | 0 |
| Technical Recruiter (Defense) This role is for a Technical Recruiter focused on the defense sector, responsible for designing and executing hiring strategies to attract, evaluate, and close exceptional software engineering talent. The role involves partnering with leadership, leveraging AI tools for automation, leading interview processes, building talent pipelines, and providing data-driven insights. | — | 0 |
| Director of Government Affairs Director of Government Affairs role focused on developing and executing legislative strategies, shaping communications, and managing engagements in the Congressional and Executive branches, with a focus on autonomy and AI in defense. | — | 0 |
| Validation Engineer Validation Engineer role focused on testing and validating system requirements for physical AI products in the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining, and agriculture industries. Responsibilities include designing and executing test cases, performing system and integration testing, setting up HIL environments, analyzing failures, collaborating with engineering teams, and developing Python-based test automation scripts. Requires 2+ years of experience in validation engineering, proficiency with HIL systems, and strong troubleshooting skills. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering is required. | — | 0 |
| Embedded Software Engineer - Core OS Senior Software Engineer role focused on developing embedded software applications for vehicle operating systems, integrating vendor components, implementing RTOS applications, and customizing Linux/Android middleware. Requires strong C/C++ skills and experience with low-level hardware debugging. | — | 0 |