This role sits at the intersection of backend infrastructure, systems engineering, and safety-critical development. You’ll work closely with autonomy, safety, and systems engineering teams to improve traceability, automate workflows, and support reliable, production-grade engineering processes across vehicle programs.
AT APPLIED INTUITION, YOU WILL
Design, develop, and productionize scalable internal tools and AI workflows that support system engineering and validation for autonomous vehicle programs.
Integrate data across requirements management, modeling, and validation tools to provide end-to-end traceability from system requirements to test results.
Build backend services and APIs to unify distributed engineering artifacts into a cohesive, reliable platform.
Develop dashboards and KPIs to measure requirement coverage, trace completeness, and validation progress.
Own and evolve the core traceability data model, enabling bidirectional traceability, versioning, baselining, and change impact analysis.
Refactor internal prototypes into production-grade, certifiable systems with strong reliability, access control, and auditability.
Collaborate closely with systems engineering, safety, and autonomy teams to ensure tooling supports compliance and safety case development.
Scale internal tooling to support production programs and future regulatory needs
WE'RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO HAS
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
2+ years of professional experience in backend software development, internal tooling, or platform engineering.
Strong proficiency in Python and familiarity with Java or C/C++.
Experience designing and building REST or GraphQL APIs.
Experience with data modeling, schema design, and integrating systems via APIs.
Experience building scalable backend services and working with CI/CD pipelines.
Strong systems thinking and the ability to work across complex, cross-functional technical domains.
NICE TO HAVE
Experience with requirements management or system modeling tools.
Experience building dashboards, metrics frameworks, or traceability platforms.
Familiarity with configuration management or compliance-driven environments.
Exposure to safety-critical or regulated systems.
Experience in a startup or fast-paced engineering environment.
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.
Applied Intuition is an equal opportunity employer and federal contractor or subcontractor. Consequently, the parties agree that, as applicable, they will abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.4(a), 41 CFR 60-300.5(a) and 41 CFR 60-741.5(a) and that these laws are incorporated herein by reference. These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities, and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin. These regulations require that covered prime contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or disability. The parties also agree that, as applicable, they will abide by the requirements of Executive Order 13496 (29 CFR Part 471, Appendix A to Subpart A), relating to the notice of employee rights under federal labor laws.
FOR US-BASED ROLES: Applied Intuition is committed to providing an accessible and inclusive application and interview experience to applicants who are disabled veterans and other applicants with disabilities or medical conditions. Reasonable accommodations are available, requesting an accommodation will not affect your candidacy in any way, and you are not required to disclose the nature of your disability or medical condition in order to make a request. If you require an accommodation please contact careers@applied.co. We will work with you!
