- Robot type
- Autonomous Vehicle · Robot AI and Software
- Location
- SunnyvaleCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Artificial Intelligence
- Posted
- Mar 25, 2026
- Salary
- $126,000–$250,000 a year
Software Engineer - AI Engineering
Job description
Meet some of our software engineers who are shaping the future of autonomy and delivering world-class solutions helping customers shorten time to market. Hear about what brought them to Applied Intuition, what’s kept them interested, and their advice to potential candidates.
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.
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.
Job responsibilities
- Design and ship the shared AI infrastructure, frameworks, and tooling that power AI capabilities across Applied’s products and toolings.
- Partner with product teams to identify the highest-leverage AI use cases and take them from idea to production.
- Serve as a GenAI/LLM expert across the company – owning best practices for architecture, safety, evaluation, and deployment.
- Design, build, and ship agentic systems such as background coding agents, AI SRE tooling
- Work directly with customers to understand their needs, demo capabilities, and shape the product roadmap. Both external customers and internal teams are your customers.
Job requirements
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent
- 2+ years of experience building and deploying AI/ML-powered features & products
- Hands-on proficiency working with LLMs and agentic architectures.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and a bias toward shipping production-quality code quickly
- Comfort working across the stack, from backend infrastructure to APIs to frontend work.
- A collaborative mindset and genuine enjoyment of customer interaction – both with external customers and internal teams who depend on your work.
- Proven ability to take initiative and context-switch across multiple high-priority projects in a fast-paced environment
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