Senior Asset Pipeline Engineer - Sensor Platform
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 own the design and production delivery of an OpenUSD asset pipeline. You will define schemas, composition, automated DCC-to-engine workflows, validation gates, material conversion, and metadata strategy. You will ensure the pipeline is observable, reliable, and useful for content authors.
Requirements
- Practical OpenUSD composition expertise, including references, variants, payloads, inherits, and specializes
- 3+ years of experience authoring and validating custom USD schemas
- UsdShade material authoring, validation, and conversion expertise
- Experience building production automated DCC-to-engine pipelines using version-controlled Python in CI
- Experience managing USD libraries at scale, including versioning, identifiers, namespaces, and validation
- Bachelor's degree in STEM or a related field
Responsibilities
- Design OpenUSD schemas and composition strategies for a versioned 3D asset library
- Build automated pipelines between DCC tools and real-time or simulation engines
- Define CI validation gates for asset integrity and fidelity
- Convert complex materials into USD-native representations while preserving physical fidelity
- Design metadata for asset discovery, semantic labeling, and downstream tooling
- Take the pipeline from design through production with observability and reliability
Benefits
- Equity