Software Engineer - Calibration Platform
Applied Intuition2 months ago
Sunnyvale, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$151k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own calibration across a growing multi-platform fleet by onboarding vehicle types, root-causing production failures, and creating reusable workflows.
- Drive cross-team initiatives to improve calibration reliability and trace failures across build, hardware, and infrastructure systems.
- Build and operate cloud workflow orchestration for calibration from data collection through evaluation and deployment.
- Design automated data-health gates for IMU/INS, GNSS/RTK, lidar, and camera data.
- Deliver production-quality self-service tooling for non-expert internal users.
- Debug across cloud and vehicle boundaries using orchestration and application logs and by verifying physical sensor wiring.
- Automate recurring failures and contribute to technical design, mentoring, and cross-team alignment.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience building and operating production software systems.
- Strong Python and modern C++ skills.
- Ownership experience for a pipeline, platform, or internal tool relied upon by other teams.
- Hands-on experience with a cloud workflow orchestration framework such as Flyte, Airflow, or Argo.
- Experience with CI/CD, containerization, and data pipelines handling large binary or log data.
- Strong systems debugging skills, including diagnosing misleading surface symptoms from logs.
- Sensor and robotics data literacy covering IMU/INS, GNSS/RTK, lidar, and camera data.
- Experience with physical systems, sensors, or hardware-in-the-loop.
- Ability to drive technical work across team boundaries without formal authority.
- Preferred: robotics, autonomous vehicle, drone, or industrial autonomy infrastructure experience; ROS/MCAP, PTP, sensor timestamp alignment, sensor calibration, geometric transforms, self-service tooling, design documents, or engineering mentorship.
Benefits
- Base salary, equity options or restricted stock units, health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, 401(k) with employer match, learning and wellness stipends, and paid time off.
- Full-time employees are expected to work primarily from the Applied Intuition office 5 days per week, with occasional remote flexibility.
- Benefits may vary by jurisdiction and are subject to change.
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.