Control Center Backend Engineer — Real-Time Ops

Applied Intuition

Sunnyvale (CA)

On-site

USD 135,000 - 185,000

Full time

2 days ago
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Health insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Life insurance
Disability insurance
401k with match
Learning stipend
Wellness stipend
Paid time off

Job summary

Applied Intuition is hiring a Software Engineer for the Control Center team in Sunnyvale, CA. You will build the central platform that connects autonomous vehicle fleets to human operators across industries, handling telemetry, digital twins, and mission orchestration.

You will own core backend domains end-to-end, delivering low-latency, reliable systems that scale from cloud deployments to on-prem and air-gapped sites, collaborating with autonomy, perception, and vehicle teams to ensure robust

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of backend/distributed systems experience using Go, C++, or Python.
  • Hands-on with high-throughput streaming architectures, event-driven systems, or time-series data management.
  • Strong API design, data modeling, and distributed consensus skills.
  • Experience with CI/CD, telemetry/observability, on-call rotations, and root-cause analysis.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, implement, scale, and maintain control center subsystems from telemetry ingestion to mission orchestration.
  • Design cloud and edge services with emphasis on safety, geofence enforcement, and remote mission execution.
  • Collaborate with autonomy, perception, and vehicle-platform teams to define APIs and data protocols.
  • Build resilient data pipelines and APIs translating vehicle metrics into actionable intelligence.
  • Deploy and monitor SaaS services across public cloud, private infra, and air-gapped environments.
  • Work with field engineers to debug live fleet operations and improve platform reliability.

Skills

Go
C++
Python
Real-time data
API design
Distributed systems
CI/CD

Tools

Kafka
gRPC
Time-series DBs
Kubernetes

Job description

Applied Intuition is hiring a Software Engineer for the Control Center team in Sunnyvale, CA. You will build the central platform that connects autonomous vehicle fleets to human operators across industries, handling telemetry, digital twins, and mission orchestration.

You will own core backend domains end-to-end, delivering low-latency, reliable systems that scale from cloud deployments to on-prem and air-gapped sites, collaborating with autonomy, perception, and vehicle teams to ensure robust

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