Software Engineer Neural Simulation
Sunnyvale, CA - USA
Job Summary
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
We are looking for software engineers to help build the backbone of Neural Simulation our state-of-the-art product for turning real-world driving data into high-fidelity simulation environments. As part of this team you will design and develop the systems that power large-scale reconstruction synthetic data generation and log augmentation along with the ML pipelines used to train and validate autonomy systems. You will work on distributed systems that transform real-world data into simulation environments and generate high-quality labeled data at scale working alongside senior engineers on system design across compute storage and data pipelines.
This role is ideal for engineers who want to grow at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems and machine learning and who are excited to help scale a state-of-the-art product while building new capabilities that solve the hardest data and platform gaps in Physical AI.
Build and maintain scalable systems for Neural Simulation including closed loop simulation and log augmentation workflows
Develop services and data pipelines that process and manage large-scale data
Contribute to infrastructure for ML workflows including:
Training pipelines
Evaluation and validation systems
Model inference pipelines
Implement and optimize storage solutions for structured unstructured and multimodal data (e.g. sensor 3D logs)
Improve system reliability observability and performance across distributed services
Collaborate closely with Infra Autonomy Research and other product teams to deliver end-to-end solutions
Own features and components end to end from design through deployment and contribute to architecture discussions
2 years of experience shipping production software
A minimum of a Bachelors degree in computer science computer engineering or equivalent practical experience
Experience building backend services or data pipelines and working with data storage systems (such as SQL NoSQL or data lakes)
Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS GCP or Azure) and containerized systems (Docker Kubernetes)
Experience with backend development in languages such as Python and Go
Solid software engineering fundamentals and strong problem-solving skills
Experience with distributed systems at scale
Experience building or supporting ML training and serving infrastructure
Experience with GPU workloads and batch orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes jobs Ray Airflow)
Experience with synthetic data generation or data augmentation for ML
Familiarity with computer vision 3D reconstruction (e.g. Gaussian Splatting) or sensor simulation (camera LiDAR radar)
Experience with autonomous driving or robotics systems
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!
Required Experience:
IC
About Company
Applied Intuition powers physical AI, automating machines across automotive, defense, trucking, mining, construction, & agriculture.