Senior Software Engineer - World Modeling & Simulation

applied; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Intuition is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to architect the world representation layer at the heart of the Acuity autonomy stack. You will define how environments are structured, queried, and updated at high frequency, enabling multi-agent reasoning across air, ground, and maritime domains.

The role requires deep expertise in spatial systems, real-time performance, and C++20, with ownership of scene and mapping pipelines, and collaboration across sensor, planning, and simulation

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience in spatial systems, world modeling, or simulation

Responsibilities

• Architect World & Scene Representation Systems: design core spatial data structures, ECS, 4D object management for large-scale multi-agent environments

Skills

Spatial systems

World modeling

Simulation environments

C++20

Python

Shell scripting

Real-time systems

Computational geometry

Coordinate transformations

AI-assisted development

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

Linux

Docker

Nix

Bazel

Job description

Applied Intuition is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to architect the world representation layer at the heart of the Acuity autonomy stack. You will define how environments are structured, queried, and updated at high frequency, enabling multi-agent reasoning across air, ground, and maritime domains.

The role requires deep expertise in spatial systems, real-time performance, and C++20, with ownership of scene and mapping pipelines, and collaboration across sensor, planning, and simulation