Application Engineer - Trucking
Applied Intuition is a physical-AI company that provides software platforms for developing, validating, deploying, and operating intelligent vehicles and machines.
About Applied Intuition
Founded in 2017, Applied Intuition builds physical-AI tooling and infrastructure, a Vehicle OS, and a Self-Driving System for automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining, agriculture, and robotics applications.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead a strategic trucking-autonomy program from development through real-world deployment. You will serve as the technical bridge between the customer and engineering teams, manage milestones and risks, translate autonomy goals into technical plans, lead knowledge transfer, investigate on-road issues, and coordinate autonomy demonstrations.
Requirements
- Professional proficiency in Japanese and experience working with Japanese companies
- 3+ years of experience leading customer-facing technical programs, systems integration, or complex engineering projects
- Systems thinking and engineering trade-off analysis
- Technical foundation in software systems
- Stakeholder management across functions, organizations, and cultures
- Written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to operate in ambiguous environments and deliver under tight timelines
Responsibilities
- Drive quarterly program milestones, including scope, acceptance criteria, progress tracking, and customer reporting
- Plan and lead customer working sessions, technical reviews, and program meetings
- Lead the knowledge transfer program and support customer engineers
- Align engineering teams and resolve cross-functional delivery topics
- Translate customer autonomy goals into technical requirements and plans
- Investigate on-road issues and communicate findings to stakeholders
- Channel deployment insights into product and engineering roadmaps
- Plan and execute on-road autonomy demonstrations
Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- 401k with employer match
- Learning stipend
- Wellness stipend
- Paid time off