Tech Lead, Autonomous Systems & Real-Time AI

Decisive Point; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Comprehensive health benefits

401k retirement plan with companyMatch

Paid time off

Job summary

Applied Intuition, Inc. is seeking a Technical Team Lead for the Autonomous Behaviors and Agents team to lead engineers in real-time decision‑making, multi‑agent coordination, and advanced planning across platforms.

You will shape the technical direction, mentor engineers, and translate mission needs into technical priorities while ensuring delivery of shipped autonomy capabilities for next‑generation human‑machine teaming.

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Robotics, or a related technical field, OR 8+ years of professional experience developing intelligent agents or planning systems
• 8+ years of hands-on experience developing performant modern C++ (C++20), with 2+ years leading engineering teams or serving as a technical lead on complex software programs
• A track record of setting technical direction, driving architectural decisions, and delivering complex systems through a team, not just as an individual contributor
• Strong theoretical understanding and practical experience implementing algorithms for constraint satisfaction, scheduling, and optimization problems
• Deep procedural and object-oriented programming experience that employs clean code principles and good OOP design patterns, with the judgment to enforce them pragmatically across a codebase
• Experience developing in Docker and containerized development environments, and using Linux-based operating systems (e.g., RHEL, Ubuntu)
• Understanding of service-oriented architecture and message broker vs. data broker paradigms, and experience making system-level architectural tradeoffs
• Ability to translate complex mathematical concepts into clear technical documentation, and to communicate designs, tradeoffs, and status crisply to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience mentoring engineers, running design and code reviews, and building healthy, high-performing team culture

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for the Autonomous Behaviors and Agents team, and direct execution from concept through delivery
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers, driving design reviews, setting engineering standards, and raising the bar on code quality and algorithmic rigor
• Guide the design and implementation of multi-agent optimization algorithms for distributed decision-making and coordination problems
• Direct development of temporal logic frameworks and constraint-satisfaction algorithms for complex planning scenarios
• Partner with product, program, and customer-facing stakeholders to translate mission needs into technical priorities, scope, and delivery commitments
• Coordinate cross-team integration and de-risk dependencies across the Axion and Acuity system families

Skills

C++20

Multi-agent systems

Leadership

Algorithms

Real-time systems

Strong communication

Education

MS/PhD in CS or related field

Tools

Docker

Linux

Job description

Applied Intuition, Inc. is seeking a Technical Team Lead for the Autonomous Behaviors and Agents team to lead engineers in real-time decision‑making, multi‑agent coordination, and advanced planning across platforms.

You will shape the technical direction, mentor engineers, and translate mission needs into technical priorities while ensuring delivery of shipped autonomy capabilities for next‑generation human‑machine teaming.