New Grad Software Engineer Candidates

COMPANY

Applied Intuition’s mission is to accelerate the world’s adoption of safe, AI-driven machines.

Our offices

Headquartered in Applied Intuition is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Washington, D.C., San Diego, CA, Ft. Walton Beach, FL, Ann Arbor, MI, London, Stuttgart, Munich, Stockholm, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Our use cases

Applied Intuition’s software solutions help automakers, Tier 1 suppliers, and companies across the trucking, construction, and agriculture industries navigate this transition and bring software-defined vehicles to market safely.

Our team

Software, simulation, and automotive experts with experiences from the top autonomy programs.

Opportunities

Why join Applied Intuition?

Strong business model

Even in difficult economic times, our business has been generating profitable revenue due to diversified customers, products, and markets.

Customer impact

All of our software engineers work directly with customers and are owners of key products and features. A tight feedback loop allows us to be aligned with our customers’ needs to provide top-tier products.

Technical challenges

We are building cutting-edge technology to improve complex problems in autonomy. Our work allows our software engineers to gain exposure to every part of the stack and avoid silos.

Mentorship

Work with automotive experts and industry leaders from top schools and companies who are readily available to provide feedback and mentor other engineers.

Growth

We encourage career development by offering optional team changes every six months and promoting top performers to technical leads or managers.

In-person culture

We work in the office five days a week to build a successful business and strong team culture with social events, clubs, and other activities.

Hero projects

Every new Applied Intuition team member completes a hero project—a sizable piece of work to be completed in your first few months. This project has a blend of mentorship from team members paired with the autonomy to make your own decisions on the approach, design, and implementation. Above all, you’ll make an immediate impact on Applied Intuition’s business.

Stephanie

Previously at UC Berkeley, Roblox, Meta

Project goal

Enable Validation Toolset users to perform advanced data analysis on simulation and drive data with a lower barrier to entry.

Solution

Build an in-product interactive Python notebook product enabling customers to perform advanced data analysis on available data (e.g. simulation results, drive log data, tick-level stats, etc).

Impact

Enables customers to set up custom ETL pipelines for curating datasets for use in downstream dashboards

Scheduled notebooks were incorporated into production workflows to curate datasets for downstream use in executive-level dashboards

Notebooks now play a central role in key workflows for internal customers, supporting the materialization of datasets that simplify dashboard complexity and enhance query performance

Learnings

Leverage the expertise of others on the team and ask questions frequently

Invest time into consistent end-to-end testing and ensure high unit test coverage

Keep customer engagement and interest high during feature development and have customer needs drive product decisions

Jarod

Previously at Brown, NASA

Project goal

Create a flexible and user-friendly tool to generate traffic (i.e., a large number of vehicles on the road).

Solution

Optimized behaviors and intelligence models at scale, and added workflows and map interactions to make traffic more user friendly.

Impact

Faster and easier creation of complex traffic scenarios

More powerful scenario variations, leveraged for things like synthetic dataset generation

Learnings

Always ask for help

If something you’re trying to do doesn’t work, adjust quickly and keep a sense of humor

Michelle

Previously at MIT, Uber, Samsara

Project goal

Give Data Explorer users the ability to performantly stream multiple cameras in Strada.

Solution

Build a new UI for viewing multiple cameras simultaneously in tiles and improve the performance of synchronized camera streaming.

Impact

This camera-first visualizer is central to sales demos of Data Explorer

Data Explorer customers use this feature extensively to triage drive logs

Since her hero project, Michelle has continued to work on scaling performant playback of drive log data

Learnings

Ask lots of questions and don’t be shy about posting in public channels; everyone wants you to succeed

Prioritizing tasks correctly is key to having a lot of impact

Have fun!

Applied Research

The goal of our AI Research team is to architect the next generation of vehicle intelligence and shape the future of autonomy as it begins to enter every part of our world — while publishing cutting-edge research in the process.

Some of the problems we’re tackling:

Multimodal Foundation Models – Vision, language, and action (VLA) foundation models power both onboard end-to-end stacks and offboard simulation/data engines for scalable, generalizable autonomy and robotics

Reconstruction & World Models – Scalable 3D/4D reconstruction and world foundation models enable closed-loop simulation for training and evaluation using large-scale real-world and internet data

RL, Reasoning & Post-Training – Reward-driven closed-loop post-training with RL and reasoning aligns pretrained autonomy/robotics stacks with human preferences and enhances robustness

Dive deeper and check out our blog post here

Growth

Global rotations

After one year or more at Applied Intuition, our engineers have the option to rotate into any of our global offices in Munich, Stockholm, Tokyo, and Seoul to work with local customers and experience local cultures for a significant period of time abroad (three to twelve months).

Read more about our Global Rotations Program at the blog post here.

Live abroad

Take the unique opportunity to get to know a different culture and gain valuable life and work experience.

Work with local customers

Develop leadership skills by working with local customers, and diversify your business experience.

Gain cross-cultural skills

Acquire the expertise required to build successful customer relationships and cross-cultural partnerships.

Hear from the team

“During my rotation to Korea, I got the opportunity to help our customers there expand their autonomy development and testing life cycle. Beyond my role as a software engineer, I learned to deliver technical wins in pre-sales customer meetings, align customer success criteria with our product milestones, and communicate effectively across languages and cultures. I’m grateful for the opportunity to bring outsized impact to a different region, and to grow as a person in both work and non-work contexts.”

Connor
Software Engineer
Home base: Mountain View
Rotation: Seoul (5 months)

PERKS & BENEFITS

How we care for our employees

Health insurance

Applied Intuition covers 100% of the cost and offers medical, dental, vision, and life insurance. Mental health is also important to us, so all Applied Intuition employees have access to 25 Sessions of Lyra per year.

401(k) match

50% employer matching to help you save money for retirement.

Fitness & learning stipend

Reimburse your sports equipment, gym membership, and massages, as well as educational and training expenses.

Catered lunch & expensed dinner

Benefit from free on-site meals and snacks.

Questions

FAQs

Do you offer internships?

Not at this time, though we review applications for rare exceptions.

What team will I work on?

We’ll allocate you to a product area during the interview process, and finalize team match in early 2026.

Do you work on the full AV stack?

Yes, we build the complete software autonomy stack for off-road use cases and trucking applications.

Are you In-Person/Remote/Hybrid?

We are fully in-person with flexibility for appointments/illness. Our in-person culture enables faster collaboration and better mentorship for early-career engineers.

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