Software Engineer, Applied Intuition
Stack, SDS, Tooling
$135-265k
Offers equity
5 days a week in office (Sunnyvale, CA)
Physical AI bringing intelligence to moving machines
Open for applications
Physical AI bringing intelligence to moving machines
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$135-265k
Offers equity
5 days a week in office (Sunnyvale, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build physical AI that create a safer, more prosperous world.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related engineering field
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping production-grade code
- Strong foundational programming experience in C++
- Experience maintaining critical path developer tooling infrastructure
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and/or managing resources in customer environments
- 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
- Preferred Master’s degree in Robotics or other autonomy-related engineering field
- Prior experience with data pipelining architectures, maps validity, or metrics and evaluation frameworks
- Exposure to software simulation tooling and either RL-based, physics-based, or reconstruction-based simulation runtimes
- Prior experience working on perception modeling, planning, controls, or other onboard robotics functions
- Previous background working with automotive OEMs, autonomous vehicles, or robotic development platforms
What the job involves
- The Stack Tooling team builds software infrastructure across multiple autonomy verticals to help engineering teams test, analyze failures, and deploy faster
- The team works on problems central to production autonomy rollout: local and cloud simulation realism, performance, and scale-up, autonomy CI and deployment pipelines, data pipelines for fast decision-making on new changes
- As a Software Engineer on this team, you will execute highly cross-functional projects supporting autonomy developers, systems engineers, and triage and release teams
- The work done by the team aims to cover multiple autonomy domains at once — a change that impacts trucking can quickly scale out to cars and offroad vehicles
- Work on consolidating common dependencies (simulation artifacts, testing methods, agentic development loops, etc.) into a single ecosystem
- Integrate with cutting edge neural rendering tools and Applied's Dana platform to enable faster analysis and stronger conclusions
- Enable safety-critical event analysis and response, pushing the limits of realistic log resimulation
- Increase hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation testing fidelity so autonomy engineers detect issues before rollout to the road
- Stabilize, generalize, and scale code deployment and offboard vehicle pre-checks to eliminate vehicle downtime and maximize testing uptime
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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