Firmware HIL Engineer

Applied Intuition Inc. is powering the future of physical AI. Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion the Silicon Valley company is creating the digital infrastructure needed to bring intelligence to every moving machine on the planet. Applied Intuition services the automotive defense trucking construction mining and agriculture industries in three core areas: tools and infrastructure operating systems and autonomy. Eighteen of the top 20 global automakers as well as the United States military and its allies trust the companys solutions to deliver physical intelligence. Applied Intuition is headquartered in Sunnyvale California with offices in Washington D.C.; San Diego; Ft. Walton Beach Florida; Ann Arbor Michigan; London; Stuttgart; Munich; Stockholm; Bangalore; Seoul; and Tokyo. Learn more at .

We are an in-office company and our expectation is that full-time employees primarily work from their Applied Intuition office 5 days a week. However we also recognize the importance of flexibility and trust our employees to manage their schedules responsibly. This may include occasional remote work starting the day with morning meetings from home before heading to the office or leaving earlier when needed to accommodate family commitments. This in-office expectation does not apply to contractor positions

• Test Automation & Python

  • Proficient with Python/Bash for tooling CLI apps (cmd2) pytest test infrastructure and hardware driver libraries

  • Experience building test frameworks that interact with real physical hardware

  • Experience building/scaling infrastructure to manage hardware test labs at medium-large scale - O(100s) of test benches/DUTs running O(1000s) of jobs daily

  • Ability to diagnose and fix flaky integration tests in production CI

• Embedded Hardware

  • Comfortable/proficient with basic-intermediate hardware/software debugging

    • Logic analyzers/oscilloscopes

    • Building/wiring basic circuits

  • Experience building on-target software for firmware/embedded systems especially those that interact with PC-side applications

  • Experience with JTAG debuggers (JLINK Lauterbachor or similar) and embedded target bring-up

  • Understanding of modern CI/HIL concepts;

• Infrastructure & DevOps

  • Proficient and productive with the linux command line

  • Linux systems administration (networking udev kernel modules systemd) - ideally on baremetal machines (vs. all VMs or something)

• 4 years experience as software engineer and at least 2 years experience working on system architecture and implementation

• BS in Computer Science Computer Engineering or a related field

• CI/CD pipeline design (Buildkite Jenkins or similar); experience with self-hosted runners on physical machines

• Bazel/monorepo experience in large codebases

• Familiarity with CAN/CAN-FD LIN FlexRay bus tooling and SocketCAN

• Strong Nix/NixOS experience: flakes modules derivations fixed-output fetches VM tests

Dont meet every single requirement If youre excited about this role but your past experience doesnt 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.
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Required Experience:

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