Software Engineer Backend

Applied Intuition is a physical-AI company that provides software platforms for developing, validating, deploying, and operating intelligent vehicles and machines.

Sunnyvale, United States
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.

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About the Role

You will design, deploy, and maintain low-latency backend services for remote-assistance sessions and real-time vehicle data. You will build cloud infrastructure, persistence layers, and data pipelines; optimize transmission; and ensure platform security, reliability, and resilience.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of professional experience in web services software development and cloud infrastructure.
  • Go.
  • Python.
  • Distributed systems.
  • Microservices.
  • Scalable backend applications.
  • Cloud platforms, including AWS, GCP, or OCI.
  • Docker.
  • Kubernetes.
  • NoSQL databases, including Redis.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and deploy scalable, low-latency backend services for remote-assistance session management and real-time data streaming.
  • Architect and implement cloud infrastructure across multiple AWS regions using protobuf and gRPC.
  • Design and implement service data persistence using NoSQL databases such as Redis.
  • Implement pipelines to ingest, process, and store real-time autonomous-vehicle data.
  • Collaborate with onboard software and frontend engineers to ensure end-to-end data flow.
  • Ensure backend security, reliability, resilience, failover, and network-disruption handling.
  • Optimize server-side data serialization and transmission for latency and bandwidth.

Benefits

  • Equity in the form of options and/or restricted stock units.
  • Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance coverage.
  • 401k retirement benefits with employer match.
  • Learning and wellness stipends.
  • Paid time off.