Applied Intuition

Software Engineer - AI Engineering

Sunnyvale, California, United States · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$126k-$250kDetected 74 days ago

Site Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringMachine LearningData EngineeringLLMsAgentic AIProduct Management

About the role

This is a 0 to 1 role with real customer demand already behind it and the potential to scale into a major new business line.
You'll operate like a startup within a larger, well-resourced company - with the freedom to experiment, ship fast, and work directly with customers.
Serve as a GenAI/LLM expert across the company - owning best practices for architecture, safety, evaluation, and deployment.

Partner with product teams to identify the highest-leverage AI use cases and take them from idea to production.
Design, build, and ship agentic systems such as background coding agents, AI SRE tooling

A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent
2+ years of experience building and deploying AI/ML-powered features & products
Hands-on proficiency working with LLMs and agentic architectures.
Comfort working across the stack, from backend infrastructure to APIs to frontend work.
Proven ability to take initiative and context-switch across multiple high-priority projects in a fast-paced environment

Practical ML literacy - you understand model evaluation, data pipelines, and the tradeoffs between approaches
Background in developer tooling, platform engineering, or internal productivity infrastructure
Experience working with autonomous vehicle systems or simulation software
Please reference the job posting's subtitle for where this position will be located.
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Applied Intuition is an equal opportunity employer and federal contractor or subcontractor.

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.
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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: $ 126,000 - $250,000 USD annually.

Note that benefits are subject to change and may vary based on jurisdiction of employment.

Work directly with customers to understand their needs, demo capabilities, and shape the product roadmap. Both external customers and internal teams are your customers.
A collaborative mindset and genuine enjoyment of customer interaction - both with external customers and internal teams who depend on your work.

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