Senior Onboard Map & State Estimation Engineer

Front Door Defense; Sunnyvale, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health benefits

401k

Learning stipend

Paid time off

Job summary

Applied Intuition seeks a Software Engineer to own the onboard live-map estimator end to end for the autonomous stack, located in Sunnyvale, CA. You will fuse HD map priors with live perception to produce a trusted, real-time world estimate used by the planner and perception systems.

You will define map trust contracts, develop evaluation pipelines, and ship estimation code in modern C++ that meets embedded real-time budgets, with opportunities to extend offboard loop over time across fleet data.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production software with at least one shipped system owning estimation core.

Responsibilities

• Own the onboard live-map estimator end to end: fuse HD map priors with live perception into a real-time world estimate trusted by the stack.

Skills

C++

State estimation

Real-time systems

Data fusion

Estimation core

Uncertainty

Education

MS/PhD in a relevant field

Tools

GTSAM

Factor-graph frameworks

Lie group methods

Job description

Applied Intuition seeks a Software Engineer to own the onboard live-map estimator end to end for the autonomous stack, located in Sunnyvale, CA. You will fuse HD map priors with live perception to produce a trusted, real-time world estimate used by the planner and perception systems.

You will define map trust contracts, develop evaluation pipelines, and ship estimation code in modern C++ that meets embedded real-time budgets, with opportunities to extend offboard loop over time across fleet data.