Engineering Manager Forward Deployment Defense
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 and develop a team of forward-deployed engineers delivering customer projects. You will set technical direction, oversee deployment and integration outcomes, establish scalable delivery practices, review architectures, resolve escalations, and work directly with defense and government customers.
Requirements
- 8+ years of industry experience
- At least 2 years of recent technical leadership experience
- Production-grade software experience with customer deployments
- Customer-facing problem-solving skills
- Experience mentoring and leading engineers
- Engineering experience across software, operating systems, and hardware
- Experience integrating and deploying complex systems
- U.S. citizenship
- Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a team of Forward Deployed Engineers
- Set technical direction across customer engagements
- Build scalable delivery practices for customer projects
- Work with defense and government customers to deploy and operationalize vehicle intelligence products
- Guide software engineering, operating system configuration, system deployment, and hardware integration
- Design scalable approaches for customer engagement and project execution
- Develop architectural solutions that improve project consistency and scalability
- Own technical outcomes and drive projects to completion
Benefits
- Equity
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- 401k with employer match
- Learning stipend
- Wellness stipend
- Paid time off
