Software Engineer - AI Engineering

Applied Intuition; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 126,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance

401k retirement benefits with employer match

Learning and wellness stipends

Paid time off

Job summary

A tech company in Sunnyvale is seeking an experienced AI engineer to join a high-impact team focused on building AI capabilities. You'll design AI infrastructure and collaborate with product teams to drive the development of new features. Ideal candidates should have a Bachelor's degree, 3+ years in AI/ML, and strong software engineering skills. The role offers competitive compensation ranging from $126,000 to $250,000 annually, including benefits and equity options.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience building and deploying AI/ML-powered features & products.
• Hands-on proficiency working with LLMs and agentic architectures.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with a bias toward shipping quickly.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship shared AI infrastructure and frameworks.
• Identify high-leverage AI use cases and take them from idea to production.
• Work directly with customers to understand their needs and shape product roadmap.

Skills

AI/ML product development

LLMs and agentic architectures

Collaboration

Production-quality code

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent

Job description

Meet our software engineers!

Meet some of our software engineers who are shaping the future of autonomy and delivering world-class solutions helping customers shorten time to market. Hear about what brought them to Applied Intuition, what’s kept them interested, and their advice to potential candidates.

About the role

We are looking for an AI engineer to join a small, high-impact team building the AI capabilities, agent frameworks, and app platform that power every Applied product and the workflows our own engineers rely on daily. This is a 0 to 1 role with real customer demand already behind it and the potential to scale into a major new business line. You’ll operate like a startup within a larger, well-resourced company – with the freedom to experiment, ship fast, and work directly with customers.

At Applied Intuition, you will:

• Design and ship the shared AI infrastructure, frameworks, and tooling that power AI capabilities across Applied’s products and toolings.

• Partner with product teams to identify the highest-leverage AI use cases and take them from idea to production.

• Serve as a GenAI/LLM expert across the company – owning best practices for architecture, safety, evaluation, and deployment.

• Design, build, and ship agentic systems such as background coding agents, AI SRE tooling

• Work directly with customers to understand their needs, demo capabilities, and shape the product roadmap. Both external customers and internal teams are your customers.

We're looking for someone who has:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent

• 3+ years of experience building and deploying AI/ML-powered features & products

• Hands-on proficiency working with LLMs and agentic architectures.

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and a bias toward shipping production-quality code quickly

• Comfort working across the stack, from backend infrastructure to APIs to frontend work.

• A collaborative mindset and genuine enjoyment of customer interaction – both with external customers and internal teams who depend on your work.

• Proven ability to take initiative and context-switch across multiple high-priority projects in a fast-paced environment

Nice to have:

• Practical ML literacy – you understand model evaluation, data pipelines, and the tradeoffs between approaches

• Background in developer tooling, platform engineering, or internal productivity infrastructure

• Experience working with autonomous vehicle systems or simulation software

Compensation at Applied Intuition for eligible roles includes base salary, equity, and benefits. Base salary is a single component of the total compensation package, which may also include equity in the form of options and/or restricted stock units, comprehensive health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance coverage, 401k retirement benefits with employer match, learning and wellness stipends, and paid time off. Note that benefits are subject to change and may vary based on jurisdiction of employment.

Applied Intuition pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum intended target base salary for new hire salaries for the position. The actual base salary offered to a successful candidate will additionally be influenced by a variety of factors including experience, credentials & certifications, educational attainment, skill level requirements, interview performance, and the level and scope of the position.

Please reference the job posting’s subtitle for where this position will be located. For pay transparency purposes, the base salary range for this full-time position in the location listed is:$126,000 - $250,000 USD annually.