Applied Intuition
Software Engineer - AI Engineering
Sunnyvale, California, United States · Mid · Contract
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Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $187,075 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 "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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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.
Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements
- 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.
- Proven ability to take initiative and context-switch across multiple high-priority projects in a fast-paced environment
Nice to have
- 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.
- Don't meet every single requirement?
- If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway.
- You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
- Applied Intuition is an equal opportunity employer and federal contractor or subcontractor.
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.
- Meet our software engineers!
- Hear about what brought them to Applied Intuition, what's kept them interested, and their advice to potential candidates.
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: $ 126,000 - $250,000 USD annually.
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.
- Meet some of our software engineers who are shaping the future of autonomy and delivering world-class solutions helping customers shorten time to market.
- 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.
This listing is sourced directly from Applied Intuition's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.