Software Engineer - Calibration Platform

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 company’s 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 applied.co.

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

About the role

Our Localization, Calibration, and Mapping team delivers high-integrity solutions that let autonomous systems navigate with precision in real-time, safety-critical environments — across consumer automotive, trucking, mining, and construction. As a new team focused on platformization, we offer a rare opportunity to own core work leveraged across the entire organization.

You'll build the self-service platform that turns sensor calibration from an expert-dependent process into production infrastructure: cloud workflow orchestration, automated data-health gates, and tooling every autonomy program can run for itself. You'll get there by living in the current system first — onboarding new vehicle types, so what you build is shaped by real-world data and telemetry. We encourage engineers to take ownership of technical and product decisions and to interact closely with users to collect feedback.

At Applied Intuition, you will:

• Own calibration across a growing multi-platform fleet: onboard new vehicle types, root-cause production failures, and convert what you learn into reusable workflows

• Drive cross-team work that raises the reliability of the entire calibration path — partner with build, hardware, and infrastructure teams to trace failures to their source

• Build and operate cloud workflow orchestration for calibration at fleet scale, from data collection through evaluation and deployment

• Design automated data-health gates that catch bad IMU/INS, GNSS/RTK, lidar, and camera data before it reaches the calibration path

• Ship production-quality tooling that non-expert internal users can run themselves

• Debug across the cloud/vehicle boundary — tracing root causes through orchestration and application logs one day, verifying how a sensor is actually wired the next

We're looking for someone who has:

• A track record of driving technical work across team boundaries: comfortable raising problems with the teams that own them, building agreement on systemic fixes, and following through without formal authority

• 4+ years building and operating production software systems, with strong Python and modern C++

• Demonstrated ownership of a pipeline, platform, or internal tool that other teams depended on

• Hands-on depth with a cloud workflow orchestration framework (Flyte preferred; Airflow, Argo, etc.), plus CI/CD, containerization, and data pipelines over large binary or log data

• Strength in debugging systems from logs when the surface symptom is misleading

• Enough sensor and robotics data literacy to reason about validity: what good IMU/INS, GNSS/RTK, lidar, and camera data looks like, and how to design a check that catches bad data

• Experience with physical systems, sensors, or hardware-in-the-loop

• Automates recurring failures out of existence

Nice to have:

• Data or platform infrastructure experience at a robotics, AV, drone, or industrial autonomy company

• Familiarity with robotics log formats and time synchronization (ROS/MCAP, PTP, sensor timestamp alignment)

• Prior exposure to sensor calibration, extrinsics/intrinsics, or geometric transforms

• Experience building self-service tooling for non-expert internal users

• Significant contributions to design documents; experience mentoring engineers

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!