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Software Engineer - Systems Engineering AI Tooling

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Sunnyvale, California$125k - $185kfull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Systems Engineering Tools & Traceability Engineer role focused on building internal platforms and workflows to support autonomous vehicle program development and validation, connecting requirements, modeling, validation, and test data into a unified engineering platform.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and productionize scalable internal tools and AI workflows that support system engineering and validation for autonomous vehicle programs.
  • Integrate data across requirements management, modeling, and validation tools to provide end-to-end traceability from system requirements to test results.
  • Build backend services and APIs to unify distributed engineering artifacts into a cohesive, reliable platform.
  • Develop dashboards and KPIs to measure requirement coverage, trace completeness, and validation progress.
  • Own and evolve the core traceability data model, enabling bidirectional traceability, versioning, baselining, and change impact analysis.
  • Refactor internal prototypes into production-grade, certifiable systems with strong reliability, access control, and auditability.
  • Collaborate closely with systems engineering, safety, and autonomy teams to ensure tooling supports compliance and safety case development.
  • Scale internal tooling to support production programs and future regulatory needs

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • 2+ years of professional experience in backend software development, internal tooling, or platform engineering.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and familiarity with Java or C/C++.
  • Experience designing and building REST or GraphQL APIs.
  • Experience with data modeling, schema design, and integrating systems via APIs.
  • Experience building scalable backend services and working with CI/CD pipelines.
  • Strong systems thinking and the ability to work across complex, cross-functional technical domains.

Skills

Required:PythonJava or C/C++REST or GraphQL APIsData modeling / schema designCI/CDSystems thinking

Benefits

  • base salary, equity, and benefits including health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, 401k with employer match, learning and wellness stipends, and paid time off.
Last updated May 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Applied Intuition

Building vehicle intelligence | Applied Intuition

Applied Intuition is the vehicle intelligence company with the tools, Vehicle OS, and autonomy stacks for creating safe, AI-powered vehicle experiences.

AIAutonomy stacksSelf-Driving SystemSimulationTesting & ValidationVehicle IntelligenceVehicle OSai-infrastructure-and-development

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