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Technical Lead, Mining Autonomy Platform

Applied Intuition
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Sunnyvale$125k - $222kfull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Technical Lead role for the Mining Autonomy Platform at Applied Intuition. Owns the foundational autonomy platform and low-level vehicle controls interface for autonomous mining vehicles, spanning hardware bring-up, embedded systems, software health/telemetry, and deployment, with 0→1 and production-scale responsibilities.

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical direction and mentor engineers for the Autonomy Platform team, setting architecture and execution priorities
  • Work with autonomy product team to define roadmap across internal product milestones and customer requirements
  • Own the low-level vehicle controls interface — designing and implementing the autonomy-to-vehicle control layer, including drive-by-wire integration and system identification for new mining platforms
  • Build and maintain the software platform that keeps autonomous vehicles healthy in production: health monitoring, diagnostics, telemetry pipelines, networking, and OTA deployment
  • Drive 0→1 bringup of new mining vehicle platforms, from initial hardware bring-up through software integration and field validation
  • Partner with internal teams to integrate shared capabilities and adapt them for mining environments
  • Define and uphold engineering standards for reliability, safety, and scalability as the fleet grows toward production deployment

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in embedded systems, robotics, or autonomous vehicle software development
  • Proven experience leading a technical team or functioning as a tech lead on a complex systems project
  • Hands-on background in robotics actuation — CAN, drive-by-wire, or similar control interfaces
  • Experience building or owning software platform components: health monitoring, telemetry, diagnostics, or deployment systems for production embedded platforms
  • Proficiency in C/C++ for embedded and real-time systems development
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field

Skills

Required:Embedded systems / robotics software leadership

Benefits

  • base salary
  • equity
  • health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
  • 401k retirement benefits with employer match
  • learning and wellness stipends
  • 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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