Tech Lead, Autonomous Mining Platform

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

Job summary

Applied Intuition, Inc. is hiring a Tech Lead for the Autonomy Platform in Sunnyvale to own the foundational stack that powers autonomous mining vehicles. You will lead the Autonomy Platform team, guiding architecture, and drive 0-1 bring-up and production-scale software for mining platforms.

You'll own low-level vehicle controls interfaces, health monitoring, telemetry, and deployment, working with partner teams to integrate shared capabilities and ensure reliability and safety across the fleet.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in embedded systems, robotics, or autonomous vehicle software development.
• Proven experience leading a technical team or acting as a tech lead on complex systems.
• 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.
• Proficiency in C/C++ for embedded and real-time systems development.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical direction and mentor engineers for the Autonomy Platform team, setting architecture and execution priorities
• Work with autonomy product team to define roadmap across internal product milestones and customer requirements
• Own the low-level vehicle controls interface — designing and implementing the autonomy-to-vehicle control layer, including drive-by-wire integration and system identification for new mining platforms
• Build and maintain the software platform that keeps autonomous vehicles healthy in production: health monitoring, diagnostics, telemetry pipelines, networking, and OTA deployment
• Drive 0-1 bringup of new mining vehicle platforms, from initial hardware bring-up through software integration and field validation
• Partner with internal teams to integrate shared capabilities and adapt them for mining environments
• Define and uphold engineering standards for reliability, safety, and scalability as the fleet grows toward production deployment

Skills

Embedded systems

Tech leadership

CAN drive-by-wire

Platform components

C/C++

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/CE/EE

Job description

Applied Intuition, Inc. is hiring a Tech Lead for the Autonomy Platform in Sunnyvale to own the foundational stack that powers autonomous mining vehicles. You will lead the Autonomy Platform team, guiding architecture, and drive 0-1 bring-up and production-scale software for mining platforms.

You'll own low-level vehicle controls interfaces, health monitoring, telemetry, and deployment, working with partner teams to integrate shared capabilities and ensure reliability and safety across the fleet.