Technical Lead, Mining Autonomy Platform
Applied Intuition6 months ago
Base Salary
$125k - $222k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead technical direction and mentor engineers on the Autonomy Platform team while setting architecture and execution priorities.
- Define the roadmap with the autonomy product team across internal milestones and customer requirements.
- Design and implement the autonomy-to-vehicle control layer, including low-level vehicle controls, drive-by-wire integration, and system identification.
- Build and maintain health monitoring, diagnostics, telemetry pipelines, networking, and OTA deployment capabilities for autonomous vehicles.
- Drive 0-to-1 bring-up of new mining vehicle platforms from hardware bring-up through software integration and field validation.
- Integrate shared capabilities from partner teams and adapt them for mining-specific requirements.
- Define and uphold engineering standards for reliability, safety, and scalability as the fleet approaches production deployment.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in embedded systems, robotics, or autonomous vehicle software development.
- Proven experience leading a technical team or serving as a technical lead on a complex systems project.
- Hands-on experience with robotics actuation, including CAN, drive-by-wire, or similar control interfaces.
- Experience building or owning production software platform components such as health monitoring, telemetry, diagnostics, or deployment systems for embedded platforms.
- Proficiency in C/C++ for embedded and real-time systems development.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Preferred experience in mining, construction, or agriculture autonomy and familiarity with haul trucks, dozers, drills, or similar vehicles.
- Preferred background in controls, system identification, or vehicle dynamics modeling.
- Preferred familiarity with OTA deployment and fleet management systems for embedded platforms.
- Preferred experience taking a new vehicle platform from initial bring-up to production readiness.
- Preferred experience integrating shared platform components into product-specific applications with partner or external teams.
Benefits
- In-office work is expected 5 days per week, with occasional remote-work flexibility.
- Benefits may include equity, health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, 401(k) retirement benefits with employer match, learning and wellness stipends, and paid time off.
About Applied Intuition
Applied Intuition builds software tools, infrastructure, and operating systems for developing, testing, and deploying autonomous and driver-assistance systems across automotive, trucking, defense, construction, mining, and agriculture. It sells enterprise software and services including simulation, sensor data management, HD mapping, and a vehicle OS to OEMs and government customers. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, it counts 18 of the top 20 global automakers and the U.S. military among its users.