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 |
|---|---|---|
| Research Engineer - AI/RL Infrastructure Research Engineer focused on building and operating large-scale ML training and evaluation infrastructure for physical AI systems, including autonomous driving and robotics. The role involves orchestrating GPU clusters, developing benchmarking and data pipelines, and enabling distributed training across cloud environments. | DataEval Gate | 9 |
| Robotics Engineer, Technical Lead Founding technical role to build and shape Applied Intuition's robotics organization. Define technical direction, write production code, and build functional demos on physical hardware. Focus on software and learned behaviors, with engagement across the hardware stack. Responsibilities include defining architecture, writing production code (Python/C++), training/evaluating/deploying learning-based policies for manipulation and locomotion, building hardware demos, establishing simulation infrastructure, analyzing telemetry, and working with data pipelines to close the sim-to-real gap. |
| ShipPost-train |
| 8 |
| Engineer Manager - ML Data and Evaluation, Self-Driving Systems Engineering Manager to lead the data and evaluation layer for E2E autonomy models in robotics, covering data enrichment, dataset curation, evaluation infrastructure, and closed-loop systems. The role focuses on accelerating model iteration speed and ensuring the quality of data and evaluation for safety-critical systems. | DataEval Gate | 8 |
| Engineering Manager - ML, Self-Driving Systems Engineering Manager to lead ML teams in developing and deploying production-grade autonomous driving systems. The role involves setting technical direction, managing training and iteration cycles, working with customers, owning ML pipelines, and overseeing the full model lifecycle from prototype to embedded deployment. Requires experience in deep learning, managing technical teams, building ML training pipelines, and deploying models to edge hardware. | ShipData | 8 |
| Technical Lead Manager - Perception, Self-Driving Systems Technical Lead Manager for Perception, Self-Driving Systems, responsible for the end-to-end ownership of a core perception model that generalizes across various vehicles, sensors, and environments. The role involves leading a team to train, evaluate, and deploy this production-grade model, with a focus on camera-first strategies and on-vehicle performance, including optimizations for embedded hardware. | ShipPost-train | 8 |
| Sensor Sim - ML Engineer This role involves applying machine learning techniques, including generative models and agentic systems, to production-grade sensor simulation for autonomous systems in industries like automotive and defense. The engineer will work on modeling worlds and sensors (Lidar, Radar, Camera) and drive the development and deployment of these ML approaches. | Agent | 8 |
| Software Engineer - AI Engineering AI Engineer role focused on building shared AI infrastructure, agent frameworks, and tooling for internal and external products. The role involves designing, shipping, and serving agentic systems, acting as a GenAI/LLM expert, and working directly with customers. It's a 0-to-1 opportunity with potential for significant impact and scaling. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Engineering Manager - ML Platform and Infrastructure Engineering Manager for ML Platform and Infrastructure at Applied Intuition, focusing on building and scaling the infrastructure for Physical AI. The role involves managing a team to own training & inference orchestration, GPU cluster architecture, and performance optimization for large-scale ML workloads. | ServeData | 8 |
| Software Engineer - E2E Autonomy Software Engineer role focused on building ML tools and infrastructure for end-to-end autonomy research and production in self-driving vehicles. Responsibilities include scaling training, managing datasets, and supporting GPU compute and eval systems. | DataServe | 8 |
| Robotic Software Engineer, Perception Robotic Software Engineer focused on developing, integrating, and maintaining real-time AI/ML sensor algorithms for autonomous vehicles. This role involves creating interfacing software for various sensors (EO, IR, acoustics, radar, RF), deploying containerized solutions, and collaborating with autonomy and customer teams. Experience with sensor physics, ML training/deployment, and Linux/Docker is required. | Post-trainServe | 8 |
| ML Perception Software Engineer ML Perception Software Engineer for autonomous vehicles/robots, focusing on building perception modules, world representations, and ML/CV algorithms for self-driving vehicles. Involves training, testing, and deploying algorithms from data collection to production. | Post-trainServe | 8 |
| Software Engineer - Prediction and Behavior ML Software Engineer role focused on developing ML-first behavior prediction and planning modules for autonomous systems, forecasting road user motions and interactions. The role involves prototyping, evaluating, and deploying ML algorithms, leveraging existing infrastructure, and collaborating with perception and planning teams. Requires experience in end-to-end deep learning model development and production software practices. | Agent | 8 |
| Robotics Engineer Robotics Engineer role focused on building general-purpose robots, working across the full stack from low-level controls to fleet deployment. The role involves designing, implementing, and tuning core robotics software, integrating hardware and software subsystems, and debugging failures on physical robots. Emphasis on C++ development, real-time systems, and robotics fundamentals, with a nice-to-have for ML/RL experience. | Ship | 7 |
| Lead Software Engineer - Autonomy/Physical AI Lead Software Engineer role focused on building backend C++ systems for physical AI and autonomy products in the defense sector. The role involves architecting, implementing, and owning high-performance infrastructure for autonomous operations in challenging environments, with a focus on shipping code and direct impact on national security. | Agent | 7 |
| C++ Software Engineer - Autonomy/Physical AI Backend C++ Software Engineer for defense autonomy products, focusing on building foundational systems for multi-domain autonomous operations at the edge. The role involves architecting, implementing, and owning high-performance backend infrastructure for autonomous systems operating in challenging environments. | Agent | 7 |
| Applied Perception Engineering Lead Lead a team developing Perception pipelines for defense applications, integrating pre-trained models into real-time systems deployed on hardware. Focus on EO/IR, Radar, and other sensor modalities, with responsibilities for perception autonomy behaviors. | ServePost-train | 7 |
| Applied Perception Engineering Lead Lead a team developing and deploying Perception pipelines for defense applications, integrating pre-trained models into real-time sensor systems (EO/IR, Radar) and managing perception autonomy behaviors. Focus on production-level software development and deployment to hardware. | Serve | 7 |
| C++ Software Engineer (Autonomous Systems) Software Engineer role focused on developing, deploying, and maintaining the core systems for autonomous vehicles, including inter-agent communications, hardware interfaces, and sensor integration. The role involves hands-on fieldwork, testing, and deployment in real-world environments, as well as leveraging simulation. It requires strong C++ proficiency and experience with robotic systems, sensors, and autopilots. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Software Engineer - Axion Data Engine and ML Ops Software Engineer role focused on building the data engine for training perception models, including edge applications and cloud data ingestion pipelines. The role involves optimizing ML model execution on edge and cloud, developing MLOps tooling, and integrating foundation models for data automation. | DataPost-train | 7 |
| Autonomy Integration Software Engineer Software Engineer role focused on integrating and deploying autonomy systems for physical AI applications in robotics, automotive, and defense. The role involves developing, testing, and maintaining software for autonomous vehicles, including sensor integration, perception pipelines, inter-vehicle communication, and simulation. Requires strong programming skills in Python/C++, experience with robotic systems, and CI/CD. | Agent | 7 |
| V&V Test Engineer This role focuses on the verification and validation (V&V) of autonomous systems, particularly for L4 trucking. The engineer will develop and execute system validation strategies, build datasets, analyze data using statistical and machine learning models for safety performance evaluation, and identify/deploy frameworks for metric generation. The role also supports the generation of safety cases and release recommendations, with a strong emphasis on automotive industry standards and regulations. | Eval GateData | 7 |
| Senior C++ Software Engineer (Defense Autonomy) Senior C++ Software Engineer for a defense autonomy company, focusing on designing and implementing algorithms for multi-agent systems, real-time decision-making, and autonomous coordination. The role involves building intelligent agents for mission planning and execution, requiring strong C++ skills and experience with constraint satisfaction, scheduling, and optimization algorithms. | Agent | 7 |
| Embedded AI Engineer – Android Automotive (On-Device Intelligence) This role focuses on deploying and optimizing on-device ML inference and learning systems for Android Automotive. It involves implementing multimodal LLMs, integrating models with specific runtimes, profiling for strict performance budgets, and designing safety guardrails for model outputs within embedded constraints. | ServeAgent | 7 |
| Software Engineer - Insights Platform Software Engineer for the Insights Platform team, focusing on building the data and analytics layer for physical AI development tooling. The role involves end-to-end ownership of systems for data ingestion, query infrastructure, dataset management, and agentic analytics, supporting autonomous vehicle programs. | AgentData | 7 |
| Software Engineer - Perception (Fallback Stack) Software Engineer role focused on building perception capabilities for autonomous vehicles within a simulation engine. The role involves designing and implementing perception and uncertainty signals to gate fallback behaviors, ensuring safe operation and ODD expansion. Experience with ML for uncertainty estimation, confidence calibration, or OOD detection is required, along with production-grade software practices in C++ and/or Python. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Architect - Fallback Stack Software Architect role focused on the L4 trucking fallback stack, defining its architecture, minimal risk maneuvers, and transitions to remote assistance. Requires experience in L4 autonomous driving systems and C++ programming. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Fallback Stack Software architect role focused on defining and implementing the fallback stack for L4 trucking autonomous driving systems. This involves designing strategies for degraded driving, minimal risk maneuvers, and transitions to remote assistance, as well as architecting interfaces between the vehicle stack and remote assistance platforms. Requires strong C++ and experience in autonomy software for L4 systems. | Agent | 7 |
| Data & ML Pipeline Software Engineer Software Engineer focused on building and maintaining large-scale data processing pipelines (ETL) for ingesting and curating driving datasets, designing systems that automate data selection, labeling, training, and testing loops, and developing infrastructure to close the loop between real-world test results and new model deployments for autonomous vehicles. | DataPost-train | 7 |
| Sensor Validation Engineer This role focuses on validating and characterizing sensor performance for autonomous systems, using both ML and physical models within a simulation environment. The engineer will design tests, develop data collection tools, improve simulation models, and work with customers to validate their models. | ServeData | 7 |
| Engineering Manager - Behavior Engineering Manager for SDS Behavior team, leading a team to build and deploy scalable behavior systems for autonomous vehicles (cars, trucks, etc.). Owns architecture and delivery of next-generation behavior planning systems for L2 and L4 autonomous vehicles, focusing on complex environments and diverse ODDs. Involves driving architectural and business decisions, customer partnerships, team mentoring, and owning a significant portion of the autonomy stack. | AgentPost-train | 7 |
| Robotic Software Engineer, Perception Robotic Software Engineer focused on developing, integrating, and maintaining real-time AI/ML sensor algorithms for autonomous vehicles. This role involves creating interfacing software for various sensors, collaborating with autonomy teams, deploying solutions to embedded systems, and interacting with customers for use case understanding and issue triage. | Post-train | 7 |
| Engineering Manager - Data Intelligence Engineering Manager for Data Intelligence team focused on producing, curating, and leveraging high-quality data for autonomy development. Responsibilities include managing engineers, prioritizing data quality systems, labeling workflows, and data mining, and integrating foundation models to enhance these processes. | DataPost-train | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |