About the Role

The Stack Tooling team builds software infrastructure across multiple autonomy verticals to help engineering teams test, analyze failures, and deploy faster. Directly connected to Applied's mission of safe and rapid adoption of autonomous machines, our work spans local and cloud simulation enablement, enhancing simulation realism, autonomy CI/CD, and developer tooling to speed up the iteration cycle.

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.

At Applied Intuition, you will:

• Combine different verticals under a single, unified simulation interface
• Integrate with cutting edge neural rendering simulation software to enable dynamic environments in simulation and bridge fidelity gaps.
• Enrich hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation testing fidelity to directly match what operators and autonomy engineers see on the road for stronger release gating signal
• Stabilize, generalize, and scale code deployment and offboard vehicle pre-checks to cut down vehicle operations idle time before on-road testing.
• Refactor complex mapping workflows into single streamlined pipeline involving offboard configuration management service
• Integrate perception snapshots performantly into simulation to boost fidelity of resimulation with perception

We're looking for someone who has:

• 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

Nice to have:

• 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

Compensation & Benefits

Compensation at Applied Intuition for eligible roles includes base salary, equity, and benefits. Base salary is a single component of the total compensation package, which may also include equity in the form of options and/or restricted stock units, comprehensive health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance coverage, 401k retirement benefits with employer match, learning and wellness stipends, and paid time off. Note that benefits are subject to change and may vary based on jurisdiction of employment.

Applied Intuition pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum intended target base salary for new hire salaries for the position. The actual base salary offered to a successful candidate will additionally be influenced by a variety of factors including experience, credentials & certifications, educational attainment, skill level requirements, interview performance, and the level and scope of the position.

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.