Software Engineer - Insights Platform
Applied Intuition6 months ago
Sunnyvale, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$125k - $222k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build ingestion systems and ensure data correctness, freshness, and reliability across diverse upstream sources.
- Develop and maintain query-critical-path infrastructure with strong latency, correctness, and stability.
- Create dashboarding, geographic views, log and simulation playback, and physical-AI-specific visualizations.
- Build agentic analytics architecture that can interpret user intent and deliver answers, charts, and dashboards through natural language.
- Improve data discoverability and governance so users and agents can understand available data and its provenance.
- Manage dataset lifecycles and maintain data lakehouse health and performance as volumes scale.
- Develop data-wrangling, preparation, and ETL capabilities within the product.
- Own systems end to end and make architectural decisions for the Insights platform.
Requirements
- 3+ years of industry experience.
- Experience building production data infrastructure, platform engineering, or distributed systems.
- Experience with large-scale data processing and query execution at production scale.
- Strong backend engineering fundamentals, including API design, service reliability, query optimization, distributed-system trade-offs, telemetry, and monitoring.
- Experience with data lakehouse architectures, table formats, or query federation is a strong plus.
- Ability to operate across storage and query engines, APIs, and product-facing tooling.
- Familiarity with metrics, alerting, and operational health for data systems.
- Experience developing, testing, and shipping software with coding agents.
- Experience with LLM tool use, agentic workflows, semantic layers for natural-language interfaces, multimodal data, geospatial systems, or AV/robotics tooling is a bonus.
Benefits
- In-office work is expected 5 days per week, with occasional remote-work flexibility.
- Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
- 401(k) retirement benefits with employer match.
- Learning and wellness stipends.
- Paid time off.
- Equity may be included in the total compensation package.
Categories
BackendData Engineering
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.