Software Engineer - AI Engineering

Meet Our Software Engineers! Meet some of our software engineers who are shaping the future of autonomy and delivering world-class solutions helping customers shorten time to market. Hear about what brought them to Applied Intuition, what's kept them interested, and their advice to potential candidates. About The Role We are looking for an AI engineer to join a small, high-impact team building the AI capabilities, agent frameworks, and app platform that power every Applied product and the workflows our own engineers rely on daily. This is a 0 to 1 role with real customer demand already behind it and the potential to scale into a major new business line. You'll operate like a startup within a larger, well-resourced company – with the freedom to experiment, ship fast, and work directly with customers. At Applied Intuition, You Will: Design and ship the shared AI infrastructure, frameworks, and tooling that power AI capabilities across Applied's products and toolings. Partner with product teams to identify the highest-leverage AI use cases and take them from idea to production. Serve as a GenAI/LLM expert across the company – owning best practices for architecture, safety, evaluation, and deployment. Design, build, and ship agentic systems such as background coding agents, AI SRE tooling Work directly with customers to understand their needs, demo capabilities, and shape the product roadmap. Both external customers and internal teams are your customers. We're Looking For Someone Who Has: A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent 2+ years of experience building and deploying AI/ML-powered features & products Hands-on proficiency working with LLMs and agentic architectures. Strong software engineering fundamentals and a bias toward shipping production-quality code quickly Comfort working across the stack, from backend infrastructure to APIs to frontend work. A collaborative mindset and genuine enjoyment of customer interaction – both with external customers and internal teams who depend on your work. Proven ability to take initiative and context-switch across multiple high-priority projects in a fast-paced environment Nice To Have: Practical ML literacy – you understand model evaluation, data pipelines, and the tradeoffs between approaches Background in developer tooling, platform engineering, or internal productivity infrastructure Experience working with autonomous vehicle systems or simulation software Compensation at Applied Intuition for eligible roles includes base salary, equity, and benefits. Base salary is a single component of the total compensation package, which may also include equity in the form of options and/or restricted stock units, comprehensive health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance coverage, 401k retirement benefits 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. Applied Intuition pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum intended target base salary for new hire salaries for the position. The actual base salary offered to a successful candidate will additionally be influenced by a variety of factors including experience, credentials & certifications, educational attainment, skill level requirements, interview performance, and the level and scope of the position. Don't meet every single requirement? If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. Applied Intuition is an equal opportunity employer and federal contractor or subcontractor. 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The parties also agree that, as applicable, they will abide by the requirements of Executive Order 13496 (29 CFR Part 471, Appendix A to Subpart A), relating to the notice of employee rights under federal labor laws. FOR US-BASED ROLES: Applied Intuition is committed to providing an accessible and inclusive application and interview experience to applicants who are disabled veterans and other applicants with disabilities or medical conditions. Reasonable accommodations are available, requesting an accommodation will not affect your candidacy in any way, and you are not required to disclose the nature of your disability or medical condition in order to make a request. If you require an accommodation please contact View email address on click.appcast.io. We will work with you! Applied Intuition