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Software Engineer - Control Center

Applied Intuition· Vehicle OS
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Sunnyvale$135k - $185kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Software Engineer on the Control Center team building the central operational platform that connects autonomous vehicle fleets to human operators across industries. Develops low-latency, scalable backend systems for telemetry ingestion, live asset state tracking, mission orchestration, geofencing, and site-wide path planning, spanning cloud and on-prem environments.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, implement, scale, and maintain critical control center subsystems - from high-throughput telemetry ingestion to live asset state tracking and mission orchestration
  • Design cloud and edge services where performance and correctness directly impact physical safety, including geofence enforcement, proximity alerts, and remote mission execution
  • Collaborate directly with autonomy, perception, and vehicle-platform teams to establish robust APIs, data protocols, and state synchronization frameworks
  • Build resilient data pipelines and APIs that transform high-volume vehicle metrics, logs, and state updates into actionable, queryable intelligence for customers
  • Deploy, observe, and harden SaaS services operating across public cloud, private infrastructure, and air-gapped on-premise environments
  • Partner with field engineers and deployment leads to debug live fleet operations, resolve real-world edge cases, and continuously close the feedback loop on platform reliability

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field
  • Proven backend/systems expertise: 4+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production distributed systems using Go, C++ or Python
  • Real-time data experience: Hands-on experience with high-throughput streaming architectures, event-driven systems, or time-series data management (e.g., Kafka, gRPC, time-series DBs)
  • Strong system design & API instincts: Mastery of data modeling, API design, and distributed consensus, with a focus on reliability, fault tolerance, and security
  • Production ownership mindset: Comfortable managing the full software lifecycle—including CI/CD, telemetry/observability, on-call rotations, and root-cause analysis for edge-case failure modes
  • Product ownership in ambiguous spaces: Ability to break down complex domain problems and execute pragmatic trade-offs in a fast-paced environment
  • Cross-functional collaboration: Excellent communication skills bridging cloud software and hardware platforms

Skills

Required:Backend developmentReal-time data processingSystem design & API designProduction ownershipCross-functional collaboration

Benefits

  • Base salary, equity, and benefits as part of total compensation (health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, 401k with employer match, learning and wellness stipends, paid time off)
  • Equity options and/or restricted stock units may be included
  • Flexible and in-office expectations noted; in-office 5 days a week typical for employees; some flexibility for schedule management
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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