Senior Tech Lead – Mining Autonomy Platform

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity options

Comprehensive health insurance

401k retirement benefits

Job summary

A technology firm specializing in autonomy seeks a Technical Lead for the Mining Autonomy Platform in Sunnyvale, California. This role involves leading the team building the autonomy stack for large-scale autonomous mining operations, focusing on hardware, embedded systems, and software. Ideal candidates will have over 7 years in embedded systems or robotics and proficiency in C/C++. The position offers a competitive base salary ranging from $125,000 to $222,000 USD annually, alongside equity and benefits.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in embedded systems, robotics, or autonomous vehicle software development.
• Proven experience leading a technical team or functioning as a tech lead on a complex systems project.
• Hands-on background in robotics actuation — CAN, drive-by-wire, or similar control interfaces.
• Experience building or owning software platform components: health monitoring, telemetry, diagnostics, or deployment systems for production embedded platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical direction and mentor engineers for the Autonomy Platform team.
• Define roadmap across internal product milestones and customer requirements.
• Own the low-level vehicle controls interface.
• Build and maintain the software platform that keeps autonomous vehicles healthy in production.
• Drive 0→1 bringup of new mining vehicle platforms.
• Partner with internal teams to integrate shared capabilities.
• Define and uphold engineering standards for reliability, safety, and scalability.

Skills

Embedded systems

Technical team leadership

Robotics actuation

C/C++ proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field

Job description

A technology firm specializing in autonomy seeks a Technical Lead for the Mining Autonomy Platform in Sunnyvale, California. This role involves leading the team building the autonomy stack for large-scale autonomous mining operations, focusing on hardware, embedded systems, and software. Ideal candidates will have over 7 years in embedded systems or robotics and proficiency in C/C++. The position offers a competitive base salary ranging from $125,000 to $222,000 USD annually, alongside equity and benefits.