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Software Engineer - Onboard Maps and State Estimation

Applied Intuition· Vehicle OS
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Sunnyvale$190k - $265kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Role focused on building and owning the onboard live-map estimator, map change detection, and related state-estimation components for Applied Intuition’s onboard stack, across multiple vehicle verticals. Emphasis on platformization, end-to-end ownership, real-time performance, and interaction with users to collect feedback.

Responsibilities

  • Own the onboard live-map estimator end to end: fuse HD map priors with live perception into a single, real-time estimate of the world the rest of the stack can trust
  • Build our onboard map change detection: classify situations like boundary shifts, stop-line moves, and road closures from the divergence between map and perception, and define when the planner should stop trusting the map
  • Define the map trust contracts the planner builds against: confidence semantics, degraded-mode behavior, and the operating points that hold across vehicle programs
  • Build the evaluation backbone, ground-truth and metrics pipelines, operating points, and regression testing that keep estimator and detector quality from silently drifting
  • Ship estimation code in modern C++ that meets real-time budgets on embedded compute
  • Extend the loop offboard over time: aggregate divergence detections across fleet drive logs into map freshness and correction pipelines

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
  • 5+ years building production software, including at least one shipped system where they owned the estimation core
  • State estimation fundamentals proven in production: factor graphs and/or filtering, data association, uncertainty representation and propagation, and 3D geometry and transforms
  • Experience fusing heterogeneous sources such as prior map data, perception output, and raw sensors, into a single world estimate, with rigorous error characterization
  • Strong modern C++ and the ability to make estimation code meet real-time budgets on embedded compute
  • Rigorous evaluation practice: has built ground-truth or metrics pipelines and used them to hold a shipped operating point and prevent regressions
  • Judgment about uncertainty: understands the difference between an error that degrades gracefully and one that is catastrophic, and designs the system accordingly
  • Experience defining a system and its interfaces and negotiating those contracts with consumer teams

Skills

Required:Onboard live-map estimatorMap change detectionMap trust contractsEvaluation pipelinesC++System/interface design

Benefits

  • Base salary, equity, and benefits (health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, 401k with employer match, learning and wellness stipends, and paid time off)
  • Note that benefits are subject to change and may vary based on jurisdiction of employment.
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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