# Software Engineer - E2E Autonomy

**Company:** [Applied Intuition](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/applied-intuition)
**Location:** Sunnyvale, CA
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $153k – $222k/yr
**Skills:** Python, PyTorch, CUDA, Bazel, Kubernetes, Spark, Flyte
**Posted:** 2026-04-21

> Builds ML tools, infrastructure, and manages large datasets for end-to-end autonomy research and productionizing self-driving software. Works with AI research and engineering teams to scale GPU compute, data, and evaluation systems. Requires strong software generalist skills across ML stack.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build tools and infrastructure to enable large-scale E2E autonomy research led by Dr. Wei Zhan
- Work directly with both AI research and engineering teams to productionize next generation self-driving software
- Help scale end-to-end training by identifying bottlenecks, especially as we continue to scale our GPU compute, onroad data volume, curation efforts, and eval systems

**Technologies:** Python, Pytorch, CUDA, Bazel, Kubernetes, Spark, Flyte

## Requirements
- Exceptional software generalist experience with ambition to contribute up and down the ML stack, onboard the vehicle, and in the cloud
- Strong fundamental skills in software & module design: can tame chaos with libraries & abstractions
- Rapid analytical and problem-solving skills

## Nice to Have
- Strong multi-language build system knowledge
- Distributed systems/compute (e.g. k8s, cloud-managed services at scale)
- ML infra fluency - has used and/or contributed to ML and large data systems

## Compensation
Base salary range: $153,000 - $222,000 USD annually

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