Sunnyvale, CA
Physical AI platform for autonomous vehicles and machines
Applied Intuition builds software infrastructure including simulation tools, vehicle OS, and autonomy stacks for physical AI in automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining, and agriculture. It enables safe development, testing, and deployment of intelligent machines like self-driving cars, drones, and robots. The platform accelerates adoption of autonomy, powering safer roads, stronger defense, and efficient operations.
Leads technical customer discovery, workshops, solution development, and revenue strategy for automotive and adjacent-domain opportunities in the Korea market. The role requires 5–8 years of relevant automotive experience, strong project execution and customer engagement skills, and familiarity with automotive software technologies.
Develop and deploy ML-first behavior prediction and planning systems for autonomous vehicles, forecasting the motion and interactions of road users. Requires a bachelor's degree, deep learning lifecycle expertise, and at least three years of production software experience with C++ or Python.
Optimizes distributed machine learning training and high-throughput offline inference across large accelerator clusters. The role focuses on profiling, scaling efficiency, cluster goodput, GPU performance, and cost-effective processing of autonomy data.
Designs developer tools and command-and-control interfaces for autonomous systems serving commercial and defense customers. The role requires 4+ years of product or UX design experience, strong interaction and visual design skills, user research expertise, and eligibility for a U.S. security clearance.
Build and manage Applied Intuition’s daily social presence for developers, researchers, and technical talent across platforms such as X and LinkedIn. The role requires 2–4 years of community or social experience, strong writing, and hands-on familiarity with technical audiences and social listening tools.
Leads the Autonomous Behaviors and Agents engineering team, setting technical direction and delivering real-time multi-agent planning and optimization systems for mission-critical autonomy. Requires substantial modern C++ experience, algorithmic depth, and demonstrated engineering leadership.
Build and scale Python-based hardware-in-the-loop test infrastructure for firmware and embedded systems, including physical test labs, CI automation, Linux administration, and target bring-up. Requires 4+ years of software engineering experience and a bachelor's degree in a related field.
Build and own high-performance C++ backend infrastructure for defense autonomy products operating across contested, multi-domain environments. The role requires 6+ years of software engineering experience, strong systems fundamentals, Python proficiency, and eligibility for a U.S. Secret clearance.
Manages communications operations, media relationships, announcement launches, executive preparation, and press tracking for a technology and AI company. Requires a bachelor’s degree, 5–7 years of relevant communications experience, strong writing skills, and familiarity with the San Francisco media landscape.
Leads strategic finance for the Defense business, partnering with executives on pricing, investments, forecasting, procurement economics, and growth decisions. Requires 8+ years of relevant finance or strategy experience, strong government budgeting and procurement knowledge, and hands-on AI workflow-building experience.
Provides global labor and employment counsel to the People Team and business leaders, advising on employee lifecycle matters, investigations, policies, disputes, and regulatory compliance. Requires a J.D., active bar membership, and at least five years of focused employment law experience.
Manages the full lifecycle of government contracts supporting a rapidly growing defense business, including proposals, negotiations, pricing, compliance, and close-out. Requires a bachelor’s degree, 5+ years of government-contracts experience, and eligibility for a U.S. security clearance.
Leads forward-deployed engineering efforts that integrate and operationalize vehicle intelligence platforms for defense and government customers. The role requires 6+ years of software engineering experience, strong C++ and Python skills, broad systems expertise, and eligibility for a U.S. security clearance.
Deploys and integrates vehicle intelligence platforms for defense and government customers, spanning software engineering, operating systems, hardware integration, and system architecture. Requires strong C++ and Python skills, complex-systems deployment experience, and U.S. citizenship with security-clearance eligibility.
Owns the company-wide operational safety compliance and assurance framework for autonomous systems programs, including procedures, fleet compliance, incident management, audits, and safety evidence. Requires 7+ years in operational compliance, transportation safety, or program management, with experience in regulated environments.
Provides strategic legal counsel for U.S. and international defense business, including government contract negotiation, procurement compliance, export controls, data rights, and proposal support. Requires a J.D., active state-bar membership, at least five years of relevant experience, U.S. citizenship, and security-clearance eligibility.
Leads end-to-end AHS production delivery for strategic industrial site operators, coordinating engineering, quality, finance, legal, procurement, and support teams. Requires 5+ years managing complex technical programs and experience with formal NPI or gated development processes.
Writes compliant, customer-focused proposals, Statements of Work, pricing narratives, and technical documentation for defense contracts. The role requires a bachelor's degree, 3–8 years of relevant writing experience, technical fluency, and strong attention to solicitation requirements.
Leads strategic growth and senior customer engagement for Applied Intuition’s SOCOM portfolio, shaping special operations defense opportunities well before procurement. Requires 15–25 years supporting SOCOM or SOF, deep acquisition and PPBE expertise, senior stakeholder relationships, and an active Secret or Top Secret clearance.
Senior strategic growth leader for an aerial combat autonomy portfolio, shaping defense opportunities and cultivating senior government relationships across Air Force, Army, Navy, and SOCOM stakeholders. Requires 15–25 years of DoD aerial combat or acquisition experience, deep program knowledge, relevant relationships, and an active Secret or Top Secret clearance.
Owns Navy accounts, develops customer relationships, shapes defense opportunities, and converts pipeline into revenue. Requires Navy operational or acquisition experience, customer-facing sales experience, and eligibility for a U.S. security clearance.
Leads development of live, virtual, and constructive simulation integrations for tactical AI experimentation, testing, and training. Requires modern C++, defense modeling and simulation interoperability experience, Linux and containerized development skills, and eligibility for a U.S. Secret clearance.
Lead design and development of Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) simulation integrations to support experimentation, testing, and training of multi-agent Tactical AI autonomy software for air combat. Requires Master's in CS/engineering, 3+ years modern C++, defense M&S tools, and simulation standards (DIS/HLA).
Develop and maintain Android and Android Automotive OS middleware across the stack through the Hardware Abstraction Layer. The role requires a bachelor's degree and at least two years of software engineering experience, with expertise in C++, Java, Android, multithreading, and related systems technologies.
Leads hardware, embedded software, networking, and flight-test integration for autonomous aerial systems. Requires 5+ years in robotics, embedded systems, flight testing, or autonomous vehicles, with strong Linux, networking, scripting, electronics, and troubleshooting skills.
The Senior HRIS Analyst configures, administers, and improves Workday and the broader People technology stack, supporting workflows, reporting, integrations, testing, compliance, and stakeholder enablement. The role requires 5+ years of hands-on HR technology experience and strong project and stakeholder management skills.
Manages full-lifecycle recruiting for engineering roles, including sourcing, stakeholder partnership, candidate experience, and closing. The role requires at least six years of technical recruiting experience, strong sourcing and negotiation skills, and comfort supporting an early-stage, fast-growing company.
Recruits and closes finance, legal, people, and other G&A talent while partnering with leadership on hiring strategy and delivering structured interview processes. Requires 6+ years of recruiting experience, strong stakeholder influence, and the ability to manage complex searches in a high-growth environment.
Build highly configurable frontend UI/UX platforms with 2D/3D visualizations for defense mission planning, command & control, and simulation tools. Requires full-stack web dev experience and interest in spatial/geographic rendering.
Senior Frontend (Full-Stack) Engineer building configurable UI/UX platforms with 2D/3D rendering for defense mission planning, monitoring, and simulation tools. Requires full-stack web dev experience, strong UI vision, US citizenship, and interest in spatial/geographic problems.
Senior full-stack engineer building configurable frontend UIs and platforms for defense autonomy tools, including 2D/3D mission planning, monitoring, and simulation interfaces. Requires full-stack web dev experience, interest in spatial/geographic rendering, US citizenship, and security clearance eligibility.
Build highly configurable frontend UIs and platforms for defense C2 (Command & Control) systems, enabling mission planning, monitoring, 2D/3D visualization, and interaction with autonomous agents in simulation and live environments. Requires full-stack web development experience and US citizenship.
Build and optimize edge and cloud data pipelines for ML perception models, including MLOps tooling, foundation model integration for automated labeling, and customer interaction with DoD stakeholders. Requires 5+ years experience with ML infrastructure, data-centric AI, and large-scale GPU jobs.
Build and optimize ML training pipelines and data engines for perception models on edge devices and in the cloud. Integrate foundation models for automated labeling and work with DoD customers. Requires 5+ years experience with ML infrastructure, microservices, and data systems plus US citizenship.
Founding UX Validation Lead to build and lead HMI/UX validation practice from the ground up at Applied Intuition. Define validation strategy, build automated UI testing infrastructure, lead cross-functional debugging, and grow a team of test engineers. Requires 7+ years software validation experience with UI/UX depth, bachelor's degree, and experience with automotive systems.
First PM for Dana, Applied Intuition's AI platform for physical industries. Own end-to-end the core platform customers use to build, deploy, share, and govern apps, including feature set, UX, multi-tenancy, scale, and reliability tradeoffs for enterprise workloads.
Own and drive the product for Dana, Applied Intuition's agentic platform for physical AI. Embed with the engineering team to define how agents are built, evaluated, governed, and improved across the full stack including harnesses, sandboxing, evals, serving, and memory.
Technical Recruiter partnering with engineering and program leaders to hire software, ML, and technical talent for Applied Intuition's defense business unit focused on autonomy and national security. Requires 3+ years technical recruiting experience with strong sourcing skills, especially in defense.
Design and integrate complex autonomy and vehicle intelligence systems for UAVs, spanning hardware and software. Requires 3+ years robotics integration experience, C++, Pixhawk autopilots, communication protocols, Docker/Linux, and willingness to travel for flight tests and customer demos.
Build high-performance C++ backend systems for defense autonomy products Axion and Acuity. Tackle multi-domain autonomy challenges in contested environments, owning infrastructure from architecture to deployment in high-stakes national security applications. Requires strong C++ and backend fundamentals plus interest in physical AI.
Senior engineer to own and maintain HD maps infrastructure for autonomous systems, defining storage formats, data distribution for UIs/pipelines/SDKs, and collaborating on mapping/localization features. Requires experience with real-world mapping challenges and 2+ years in C++ or Python.
Senior engineer to own and maintain HD maps end-to-end for Applied Intuition's product suite, including storage formats, data distribution, UIs, pipelines, and SDKs. Requires experience with mapping/localization challenges, 2+ years in AV or simulation, and C++/Python knowledge.
Technical Program Manager supporting defense autonomy projects. Manage complex customer projects, engage DOD clients to identify pain points, lead pursuits and technical proposals, and coordinate with internal SMEs on software solutions for autonomy.
Technical Program Manager responsible for leading complex engineering projects in vehicle OS, supporting pre-sales activities, creating technical proposals, and managing customer engagements to address pain points in data and simulation workflows for automotive OEMs and Tier 1s. Requires Master's degree and 3+ years industry knowledge in vehicle development using data or simulation.
Design sophisticated user experiences for autonomy and defense software platforms, including developer tools for autonomous systems and command/control applications. Requires 5+ years in product/UX design for complex interactive software, strong portfolio, and US citizenship with security clearance eligibility.
Systems Engineer responsible for creating and managing system and software requirements, functional architecture using Cameo/SysML, validation/verification, and traceability for Vehicle OS product. Requires 2+ years in systems engineering, MBSE, and experience with SysML/Cameo in automotive/defense/aerospace.
Research Scientist developing cutting-edge 3D vision, reconstruction, and generation models (including foundation models and Gaussian splatting) for autonomous driving and robotics. Requires strong publication record in CV/ML/robotics, MSc/PhD, and experience with PyTorch and computer vision.
QA Engineer responsible for creating automated test scripts, analyzing results, triaging issues in autonomy software and hardware, and signing off on releases for Applied Intuition's AV products. Requires BS in CS/engineering, general software testing knowledge, and strong communication skills; AV simulation experience is a plus.
Product Manager owning vision, strategy, and roadmap for DefenseOS, a zonal naval warship operating system adapted from commercial VehicleOS. Lead customer discovery with Navy stakeholders, define architecture integrations with legacy combat/HM&E systems, and drive prioritization/trade-offs as an IC partnering with engineering and design. Requires 8+ years PM experience on complex hardware-software platforms and US Top Secret clearance eligibility.
Perception Engineer owning outcomes for autonomous mining vehicles. Responsible for sensor selection, model adaptation to new sites/domains, diagnosing failures, data strategies, and translating customer needs into technical KPIs and solutions. Requires strong systems understanding of perception/full stack and real-world deployment experience.