Software Engineer, Applied Intuition
AI Engineering
$126-250k
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
Physical AI bringing intelligence to moving machines
Open for applications
Physical AI bringing intelligence to moving machines
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$126-250k
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build physical AI that create a safer, more prosperous world.
Role
Who you are
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent
- 2+ years of experience building and deploying AI/ML-powered features & products
- Hands-on proficiency working with LLMs and agentic architectures
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and a bias toward shipping production-quality code quickly
- Comfort working across the stack, from backend infrastructure to APIs to frontend work
- A collaborative mindset and genuine enjoyment of customer interaction – both with external customers and internal teams who depend on your work
- Proven ability to take initiative and context-switch across multiple high-priority projects in a fast-paced environment
- 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
- Practical ML literacy – you understand model evaluation, data pipelines, and the tradeoffs between approaches
- Background in developer tooling, platform engineering, or internal productivity infrastructure
- Experience working with autonomous vehicle systems or simulation software
What the job involves
- We are looking for an AI engineer to join a small, high-impact team building the AI capabilities, agent frameworks, and app platform that power every Applied product and the workflows our own engineers rely on daily
- This is a 0 to 1 role with real customer demand already behind it and the potential to scale into a major new business line. You’ll operate like a startup within a larger, well-resourced company – with the freedom to experiment, ship fast, and work directly with customers
- Design and ship the shared AI infrastructure, frameworks, and tooling that power AI capabilities across Applied’s products and toolings
- Partner with product teams to identify the highest-leverage AI use cases and take them from idea to production
- Serve as a GenAI/LLM expert across the company – owning best practices for architecture, safety, evaluation, and deployment
- Design, build, and ship agentic systems such as background coding agents, AI SRE tooling
- Work directly with customers to understand their needs, demo capabilities, and shape the product roadmap. Both external customers and internal teams are your customers
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, Honda, 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 HQ
Sunnyvale West, Sunnyvale, CA
Leadership
Peter Ludwig
(Co-Founder & CTO)Prior to co-founding Applied Intuition in 2017, Peter was a Product Manager at Google for 5 years.
Qasar Younis
(Co-Founder & CEO)Qasar previously founded TalkBin where they served as the CEO. They also served as the COO at Y Combinator and as a Group Product Manager of Google Maps at Google.
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