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Engineering Manager - Axion

Applied Intuition· Vehicle OS
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Sunnyvale$204k - $343kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Engineering Manager role leading a cross-functional Axion team (software, simulation, integration, UI/UX) to deliver autonomy toolchain capabilities, drive roadmaps, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, hardware, operations, and defense customers.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, coach, and grow a team of engineers (individual contributors, leads) working on one or more Axion modules (e.g., simulation engine, mission-control UI, hardware integration pipeline)
  • Define and own the technical roadmap for your area: translate product vision into deliverables, ensure alignment with overall Axion strategy
  • Drive software engineering best practices: architecture design, code reviews, CI/CD, test automation, performance/scalability, quality metrics
  • Manage project execution: planning sprints/releases, monitoring progress, identifying risks/blockers, ensuring delivery of milestones on time and to quality
  • Work with product management and UX/design to refine requirements, make trade-offs, and ensure that the engineering roadmap maps to user/customer value and field readiness
  • Collaborate with hardware/integration and operations teams to ensure seamless delivery of autonomy toolchain across simulation, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), live platforms
  • Ensure the team is set up for high-impact: recruiting top talent, setting clear goals, fostering a culture of ownership, iteration, and innovation
  • Communicate status, risk, and outcomes to senior leadership; escalate as needed; provide engineering input for business decisions
  • Stay abreast of emerging technologies: simulation, autonomy, AI, real-time systems, human-machine interfaces, and help the team apply them

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (advanced degree preferred)
  • Proven experience (e.g., 3 – 5+ years) in software engineering roles with increasing responsibility, and at least 1 – 2 years in a leadership role (team lead, manager) delivering complex systems
  • Strong technical background: architecture, design, implementation and delivery of large-scale, high-performance software systems (ideally simulation, real-time, autonomy, robotics, or hardware integration)
  • Experience managing full software development lifecycle: requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, maintenance
  • Experience in mentoring and growing engineering teams: recruiting, performance management, career development, building high-performing teams
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills: able to work cross-functionally with product, UX/design, hardware/integration, operations, senior leadership
  • Comfort in a fast-paced, highly-ambiguous environment; ability to make thoughtful trade-offs between speed, quality, and scalability
  • US citizenship. You must already have or be eligible to receive an active US Top Secret security clearance upon onboarding to this role

Skills

Required:Team leadership and people managementTechnical roadmap planningSoftware architecture and designFull software development lifecycleCross-functional collaboration

Benefits

  • Base salary, equity, and benefits as part of total compensation (health, dental, vision, life and disability, 401k with employer match, learning and wellness stipends, paid time off)
Last updated Oct 11, 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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