# Staff Software Engineer
**Company:** [Applied Intuition](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/applied-intuition)
**Location:** Sunnyvale, CA
**Salary:** $230K-$323K
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** C++, Python, TypeScript, Go, React, GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes, ROS
**Posted:** 2026-04-21
> Staff Software Engineer designs elegant solutions for complex problems in autonomy, working across full-stack, infrastructure, robotics, and graphics. Requires 7-10+ years experience with C++, Python, TypeScript or Golang, and mentoring.
## Job Description
## Responsibilities
- Work across our entire stack to develop new products, features, and tools for our customers' autonomy development workflows
- Identify and scope complex engineering challenges, design elegant solutions, and lead implementation across teams.
- Influence the technical strategy of the team when balancing work on new features, scaling challenges, and technical debt.
- Work with domain experts across infrastructure, robotics, and graphics.

## Requirements
- 7-10+ years of experience in shipping complex software
- Proven experience designing and implementing solutions to complex architectural problems
- Production experience writing in **C++**, **Python**, **TypeScript**, or **Golang**
- Experience mentoring software engineers

## Nice to Have
- Working knowledge of frontend, API layer, containerization, or cluster orchestration frameworks (such as **React**, **GraphQL**, **Docker**, or **Kubernetes**)
- Experience working with simulation tools, modeling physical problems, or using robotics middlewares (such as **ROS**)

## Compensation
- Base salary: **$230,000 - $323,000 USD annually**
- Equity, comprehensive health/dental/vision/life/disability insurance, 401k with employer match, learning/wellness stipends, paid time off
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