- Robot type
- Autonomous Vehicle · Robot AI and Software
- Location
- SunnyvaleCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Jun 30, 2026
- Salary
- $153,000–$220,000 a year
Senior Software Engineer - Simulation Orchestration
Job description
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.;
Job responsibilities
- Develop a multi-environment compute platform for workload scheduling, resource allocation, and node lifecycle.
- Collaborate with customers and internal teams to translate compute needs into platform features.
- Solve distributed systems challenges including GPU scheduling, autoscaling, and resource efficiency.
- Ensure high reliability and scalability for production simulation systems.
- Drive architecture decisions to expand simulation orchestration into a company-wide compute platform.
Job requirements
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with a track record of owning production distributed systems
- 4+ years of coding in Golang, Python, Java, or C++
- 4+ years building complex backend systems on major cloud providers
- Deep Kubernetes expertise, including pod scheduling, node lifecycle, and autoscaling under load
- Experience building or operating workload scheduling systems (e.g., dispatch, bin-packing, quota enforcement)
- Self-starter with experience driving production system development from 0 to 1
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