Software Engineer, Applied Intuition
$182.6-243.9k
+ Equity
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
$182.6-243.9k
+ Equity
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
- Requires a Bachelor’s or foreign degree equivalent in Computer Science or related field
- One (1) year of experience in job offered or any occupation in which the required experience was gained. Employer will accept knowledge gained through employment experience, research, or academic courses of study:
- Python
- Go or C++
- Building scalable software systems and data-intensive pipelines
- Building and training models using deep learning frameworks
- Data modeling
- SQL
- Modern Version control (GIT)
- Deep Neural Networks, Generative Models, or Reinforcement Learning
- Cloud infrastructure
- Containerization
- Orchestration tools to deploy and scale software services
- 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
What the job involves
- Design, implement, and deploy software and machine learning components focused on behavior prediction and environmental interactions
- Build scalable software to support inference and decision-making in dynamic environments
- Build and optimize pipelines to process complex datasets, including time-series and sensor data
- Transform raw logs into structured datasets optimized for training large-scale modeling and forecasting algorithms
- Develop testing and evaluation frameworks to validate system performance within simulated environments
- Measure model accuracy and logic robustness against real-world ground truth data to drive iterative improvements
- Implement and refine algorithms for state estimation and decision planning
- Leverage generative or deep learning methods to improve the efficiency and accuracy of models dealing with uncertainty
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate models into production-grade systems, ensuring low-latency performance and seamless interaction with upstream modules
- Develop and maintain software tools, libraries, and infrastructure for visualizing model outputs, managing experiment tracking, and automating workflows for continuous model delivery
- Maintain high code quality through modular design, implementing rigorous testing strategies (including mocks and regression tests) suitable for complex, data-intensive 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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