Applied Intuition
Process Engineer
Sunnyvale, California, United States · Senior · Contract
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Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $133,661 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Materials Engineers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- Operations across our programs has scaled faster than the methodology behind it, and we need someone whose full-time job is closing that gap.
- You'll spend time in the ops flow, measure where time and cost actually sit, and identify the highest-leverage improvements.
- Our fleet is scaling past 100+ vehicles across three distinct business areas, and the same operational problems keep showing up in different programs.
Responsibilities
- We're hiring a Process Engineer to join Vehicle Operations with a cross-program mandate covering Test, Fleet Reliability, Build, and On Road Deployment across our Automotive, Trucking, and Construction & Mining programs.
- Some of that work is analysis and methodology design
- some of it is driving change end-to-end, from design through full rollout.
- You'll recognize those patterns, design the methodology to solve them once rather than every time, and build the measurement infrastructure that tells us whether what we're doing is actually working.
- Some of that work is analysis and methodology design; some of it is driving change end-to-end, from design through full rollout.
- Process templates and standards: develop SOP structures, runbook formats, checklist templates, and training assessment models that scale across verticals.
- Cross-vertical pattern recognition: identify where the same problem appears in Test, Build, Fleet Reliability, and On Road Deployment so we design the solution once instead of three or four times.
- Design: produce structured findings, methodology, and a clear implementation path with prioritization and rationale.
Requirements
- Ability to influence without authority - your output gets adopted across teams that don't report to you.
Nice to have
- Background in automotive, robotics, autonomous vehicles, manufacturing, aerospace, or another complex hardware + software operations environment.
- Experience scaling operations from pilot through commercial deployment.
- Familiarity with fleet operations, vehicle servicing and uptime, or test and deployment cycles.
- ISO 9001 / QMS exposure.
- Lean Six Sigma Green or Black Belt certification.
- MS in Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.
- Please reference the job posting's subtitle for where this position will be located.
- Don't meet every single requirement?
Skills
- About Applied Intuition
- Applied Intuition, Inc. is powering the future of physical AI.
- 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.
- Learn more at applied.co.
- Applied Intuition is a Tier 1 vehicle software supplier that accelerates the adoption of safe and intelligent machines worldwide.
Compensation
- at Applied Intuition for eligible roles includes base salary, equity, and benefits.
- Applied Intuition pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum intended target base salary for new hire salaries for the position.
- For pay transparency purposes, the base salary range for this full-time position in the location listed is: $130,000-$169,000
Benefits
- Note that benefits are subject to change and may vary based on jurisdiction of employment.
Company info
- Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion, the Silicon Valley company is creating the digital infrastructure needed to bring intelligence to every moving machine on the planet.
- We are an in-office company, and our expectation is that employees primarily work from their Applied Intuition office 5 days a week.
Equal opportunity
- Applied Intuition is an equal opportunity employer and federal contractor or subcontractor.
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