Autonomy Program Engineer - Customer-Facing (Japan)

Applied Intuition; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k

Job summary

Applied Intuition seeks a technically strong, customer-facing program leader to drive a strategic autonomy program with a major automotive OEM in Japan, from development through real-world on-road deployment. You will act as the day-to-day customer contact and bridge to internal engineering teams.

You will manage milestones, transfer knowledge to customer engineers, and coordinate across autonomy, systems, hardware, and operations to keep the program on track and deliver results.

Qualifications

• Japanese language proficiency and experience working with Japanese companies.

Responsibilities

• Drive delivery of quarterly program milestones for the customer in partnership with the program lead, from defining scope and acceptance criteria to tracking progress and reporting status to customer leadership
• Plan and run regular onsite and remote meetings with the customer, including working sessions, technical reviews, and management- and steering-level program meetings
• Lead the knowledge transfer program, designing training content and on-the-job learning paths and directly supporting customer engineers as they build hands-on capability with Applied’s autonomy stack and tools
• Align internal engineering teams toward milestone delivery and drive resolution of cross-functional topics spanning autonomy software, systems engineering, hardware, integration, and operations
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor, translating the customer’s high-level autonomy goals into clear technical requirements and actionable plans
• Investigate on-road issues and technical questions, and communicate findings clearly to both engineering and non-technical customer stakeholders
• Channel insights from hands-on deployment and demos back into Applied’s product and engineering roadmaps
• Plan and execute on-road autonomy demonstrations for prospective trucking autonomy customers and other OEMs, coordinating route preparation, vehicle readiness, technical risk tracking, and on-site logistics with engineering and go-to-market teams

Skills

Program management

Customer-facing

Systems thinking

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or related field

Tools

Linux

Git

Cloud

Job description

Applied Intuition seeks a technically strong, customer-facing program leader to drive a strategic autonomy program with a major automotive OEM in Japan, from development through real-world on-road deployment. You will act as the day-to-day customer contact and bridge to internal engineering teams.

You will manage milestones, transfer knowledge to customer engineers, and coordinate across autonomy, systems, hardware, and operations to keep the program on track and deliver results.