Platform Engineer - Insights & Data Analytics

Applied Intuition; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 222,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Intuition in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking an Insights Platform Engineer to own data infrastructure and analytics for physical AI workflows. You’ll design and operate the ingestion, storage, and processing layers used daily by autonomous systems teams.

You’ll focus on reliable data delivery, fast queries, and rich visualizations, enabling engineers to derive actionable insights from sensor logs, simulations, and model results.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of industry experience.
• Experience building production data infrastructure, platform engineering, or distributed systems.
• Experience with large-scale data processing and query execution at production scale.
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals: API design, service reliability, query optimization, distributed system trade-offs, telemetry and monitoring.
• Experience with data lakehouse architectures, table formats, or query federation is a strong plus.
• Comfort operating across the stack—from storage and query engines to APIs and product-facing tooling.
• Familiarity with building for observability: metrics, alerting, and operational health of data systems.
• Experience developing, testing, and shipping software with coding agents.
• Bonus: experience with LLM tool use, developing agentic workflows, or semantic layers for natural language interfaces.
• Bonus: exposure to multimodal data, geospatial systems, or AV/robotics tooling.

Responsibilities

• Ingestion & Data Reliability — Ensure correctness and reliability of data at scale across sources.
• Query Critical Path — The infrastructure every query flows through, affecting latency and correctness.
• Dashboarding & Autonomy-Native Visualization — Build visualizations and integrations for physical AI.
• Agentic Analytics — Architecture to let AI understand user intent and deliver answers via natural language.
• Data Discoverability & Governance — Enable data discovery and governance across platforms.
• Dataset Lifecycle Management — Maintain lakehouse health as data volumes grow.
• Data Wrangling & Transformation — Tools for data preparation and ETL within the product.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Data lakehouse

Query federation

Observability

LLM tool use

Agentic workflows

Geospatial tooling

Multimodal data

APIs

Job description

Applied Intuition in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking an Insights Platform Engineer to own data infrastructure and analytics for physical AI workflows. You’ll design and operate the ingestion, storage, and processing layers used daily by autonomous systems teams.

You’ll focus on reliable data delivery, fast queries, and rich visualizations, enabling engineers to derive actionable insights from sensor logs, simulations, and model results.