Software Engineer, Applied Intuition
Cloud Infrastructure
$126-186k
5 days a week in office (Sunnyvale, CA)
Software infrastructure for autonomous vehicles
Be an early applicant
Software infrastructure for autonomous vehicles
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$126-186k
5 days a week in office (Sunnyvale, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To accelerate the world's adoption of safe and intelligent machines.
Role
Who you are
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent
- 3+ years of experience in a software engineering role working on infrastructure, monitoring, or a large scale software product
- 3+ years of coding experience from shell scripting (e.g., Bash) to higher-level languages (e.g., Python, C++)
- Experience with microservice orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes
- Experience in the following: Golang, Python, Java, React, and C++
- Experience working with containerized systems (e.g., Docker)
- Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles
Desirable
- Experience utilizing open source tooling
- Experience with deploying software on either public clouds (e.g., AWS) or on-premise clusters
What the job involves
- Modern autonomous system development is heavily reliant on daily, realistic, and large scale simulations to test constant software changes
- Join our cloud platform team to ensure we're building efficient and reliable systems for managing these large-scale workloads
- As a cloud infrastructure engineer you'll be improving the development and deployment of our large-scale simulation infrastructure
- The compute and data generation scale of our product workloads pushes the boundaries of standard cluster deployments, and you'll be at the forefront of helping build out and ensure reliability of this system
- All while ensuring the deployment infrastructure is interoperable with various custom autonomy software and infrastructure used across the world
- You will work closely across the entirety of the engineering team to ensure the operational success of our backend and a variety of customer deployments
- At Applied Intuition, we encourage all engineers to take ownership over technical and product decisions, interact closely with users to collect feedback, and contribute to a thoughtful, dynamic team culture
- Create and implement best practices for deploying and maintaining software for multiple customers across all three major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) with minimal downtime and high reliability
- Monitor Applied Intuition software on deployed machines and architect solutions to any bottlenecks that are encountered
- Improve developer efficiency by building internal tooling and optimizing our CI/CD systems
Our take
Autonomous vehicles present a lot of challenging problems to engineers, particularly in terms of safety and reliability, and testing and development can be infamously slow. Applied Intuition provides software to run simulations and tests for autonomous vehicles more quickly and effectively, speeding up the development and launch of AVs for multiple industries.
With big companies such as Tesla and Google focused on developing automation, Applied Intuition has the scope to provide the software that makes it a reality. The company’s suite of simulation, validation, and drive log management software aids in the more efficient deployment of autonomous vehicles, with companies such as Toyota, Nissan, and General Motors relying on its solutions.
As the autonomous vehicles market accelerates, Applied Intuition is well set for growth, especially as it continues to expand its capabilities. Notable developments include the acquisitions of CarSim, Scenebox and Embark Trucks, as well as partnerships with AMBA and Valeo. All these efforts seek to bolster the company's offering towards supporting the faster and safer deployment of AVs. A $600 million Series F round, awarded in 2025, will go towards its next phase of product development, alongside key hires across its product team.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
68% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2025
$600m
SERIES F
Mar 2024
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.2bn
Company benefits
- Health Insurance: Applied covers 100% of the cost and offers medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
- 401(k) Match: 50% employer matching to help you save money for retirement
- Fitness Stipend: Our wellness program supports your health and fitness goals. We pay for your trainers, gym memberships, massages, and more!
- Learning Stipend: We invest in your learning and growth by reimbursing you for educational and training expenses
- Parental leave: 12-week, fully paid parental leave to bond with a newborn child or new adopted or foster child
- Catered lunch, expensed dinner, on-site meals and snacks
Company HQ
Sunnyvale West, Sunnyvale, CA
Leadership
Peter Ludwig
(Co-Founder & CTO)Worked at Google for 5 years, including as a Product Manager.
Qasar Younis
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former COO at Y Combinator. Previously a Group Product Manager at Google. Founded TalkBin.
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