Software Engineer - Insights Platform

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with employer match

Equity options

Paid time off

Job summary

Applied Intuition in Sunnyvale, California is seeking a data infrastructure engineer to manage the pipeline for their cutting-edge Insights platform. This role offers end-to-end ownership, essential for the autonomy development workflow and daily operations of advanced vehicle programs.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years of experience in backend engineering, large-scale data processing, and an understanding of query execution. Compensation ranges from $125,000 to $222,000 annually along with excellent benefits.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of industry experience.
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals.
• Experience with large-scale data processing.

Responsibilities

• Manage ingestion and data reliability on the Insights platform.
• Ensure critical query infrastructure operates seamlessly.
• Oversee dashboarding and analytics surface for users.

Skills

Backend engineering fundamentals

Large-scale data processing

API design

Service reliability

Distributed systems

Observability building

Job description

About Applied Intuition

Applied Intuition, Inc. is powering the future of physical AI. Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion, the Silicon Valley company creates the digital infrastructure needed to bring intelligence to every moving machine on the planet. Applied Intuition serves the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries in three core areas: tools and infrastructure, operating systems, and autonomy. Eighteen of the top 20 global automakers, as well as the United States military and its allies, trust the company’s solutions to deliver physical intelligence. Applied Intuition is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in Washington, D.C.; San Diego; Ft. Walton Beach, Florida; Ann Arbor, Michigan; London; Stuttgart; Munich; Stockholm; Bangalore; Seoul; and Tokyo.

About The Team

The Insights platform is the data and analytics layer underlying Applied Intuition's physical AI development tooling suite. We own the full stack — from ingestion and query infrastructure to data discoverability, dataset management, and next‑generation agentic analytics. Our platform gives autonomy engineers complete visibility and control over the data their workflows produce: sensor logs, simulation runs, model evaluation results, KPIs, and more. It gives users the flexibility to analyze and operationalize that data quickly, minimizing any technical barriers. We’re building the next‑generation Insights platform for physical AI — one that scales alongside the fleets, simulation environments, and end‑to‑end models that define where the industry is headed.

What You'll Work On

• Ingestion & Data Reliability – The entry point for all data on the platform. The correctness, freshness, and reliability of everything downstream depends on getting this right at scale across a diverse set of upstream sources.
• Query Critical Path – The infrastructure every single query in our product flows through. Latency, correctness, and stability here has a direct, visible impact on every user of the platform, every day.
• Dashboarding & Autonomy‑Native Visualization – The analytics surface that users actually see. Beyond standard BI, we build visualizations and integrations specific to physical AI: geographic views, log and simulation playback, and domain‑specific renderers that don't exist off the shelf.
• Agentic Analytics – The frontier of what Insights becomes. Building the architecture that lets an AI understand a user's intent, reason about the underlying data and physical AI concepts, and deliver answers, charts, and dashboards entirely through natural language.
• Data Discoverability & Governance – The connective tissue that lets users and agents understand what data exists, where it came from, and how to use it. Without this, scale becomes a liability rather than an asset.
• Dataset Lifecycle Management – The operational foundation that keeps the data lakehouse healthy and performant as data volumes grow by orders of magnitude.
• Data Wrangling & Transformation – The tools that give users agency over their own data – enabling custom preparation and ETL flows without ever leaving the product.

Why This Role

This is a high‑ownership role on a small team building the infrastructure that the entire autonomy development workflow depends on. You'll have end‑to‑end ownership of systems used daily by engineers at some of the most sophisticated autonomous vehicle programs in the world — at a stage where your architectural decisions will shape the platform for years to come.

What We're Looking For

• 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

Compensation

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, 401(k) 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. For pay transparency purposes, the base salary range for this full‑time position in the location listed is: $125,000 - $222,000 USD annually.

Additional Information

Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Applied Intuition is an equal opportunity employer and federal contractor or subcontractor. Consequently, the parties agree that, as applicable, they will abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60‑1.4(a), 41 CFR 60‑300.5(a) and 41 CFR 60‑741.5(a) and that these laws are incorporated herein by reference. These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities, and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin. These regulations require that covered prime contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or disability. The parties also agree that, as applicable, they will abide by the requirements of Executive Order 13496 (29 CFR Part 471, Appendix A to Subpart A), relating to the notice of employee rights under federal labor laws.