Software Engineer Control Center

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

As a Software Engineer on the Control Center team you will build the central operational platform that connects autonomous vehicle fleets to human operators across a wide range of industries including mining commercial trucking defense industrial automation and consumer AVs.

Control Center acts as the central nervous system for autonomous operations handling everything from continuous telemetry ingestion and real-time digital twins to mission orchestration safety-critical geofencing and site-wide path planning.

In this role you will own core platform domains end-to-end building low-latency ultra-reliable backend systems that scale across diverse vehicle types and operational environments-from public cloud deployments to air-gapped on-premise sites.

• Architect implement scale and maintain critical control center subsystems - from high-throughput telemetry ingestion to live asset state tracking and mission orchestration

• Design cloud and edge services where performance and correctness directly impact physical safety including geofence enforcement proximity alerts and remote mission execution

• Collaborate directly with autonomy perception and vehicle-platform teams to establish robust APIs data protocols and state synchronization frameworks

• Build resilient data pipelines and APIs that transform high-volume vehicle metrics logs and state updates into actionable queryable intelligence for customers

• Deploy observe and harden SaaS services operating across public cloud private infrastructure and air-gapped on-premise environments

• Partner with field engineers and deployment leads to debug live fleet operations resolve real-world edge cases and continuously close the feedback loop on platform reliability
  

• Proven backend/systems expertise: 4 years of experience designing building and operating production distributed systems using Go C or Python.

• Real-time data experience: Hands-on experience with high-throughput streaming architectures event-driven systems or time-series data management (e.g. Kafka gRPC time-series DBs).

• Strong system design & API instincts: Mastery of data modeling API design and distributed consensus with a sharp focus on reliability fault tolerance and security.

• Production ownership mindset: Comfort managing the full software lifecycleincluding CI/CD telemetry/observability on-call rotations and root-cause analysis for edge-case failure modes.

• Product ownership in ambiguous spaces: Ability to take vague requirements break down complex domain problems and execute pragmatic trade-offs in a fast-paced environment.

• Cross-functional collaboration: Excellent communication skills with a track record of bridging technical gaps between cloud software and hardware platforms

• Familiarity with robotics protocols and middleware (CAN MQTT DDS SOME/IP).

• Experience deploying on Kubernetes across cloud-hosted and air-gapped/on-prem environments.

• Background in safety-critical functional safety or heavily regulated domains (e.g. mining automotive industrial automation).

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.

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. If you require an accommodation please contact . We will work with you!

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