Sensor Sim - ML Engineer
Applied Intuition, Sunnyvale
- Pay
- $175K – $275K
- Work type
- Onsite
- Level
- Not stated
- Area
- ML / AI engineering
- Posted
- Mar 28, 2026
About the role
Applied Intuition, Inc. is powering the future of physical AI. Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion, the Silicon Valley company is creating the digital infrastructure needed to bring intelligence to every moving machine on the planet. Applied Intuition services the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries in three core areas: tools and infrastructure, operating systems, and autonomy. Eighteen of the top 20 global automakers, as well as the United States military and its allies, trust the company’s solutions to deliver physical intelligence. Applied Intuition is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in Washington, D.C.; San Diego; Ft. Walton Beach, Florida; Ann Arbor, Michigan; London; Stuttgart; Munich; Stockholm; Bangalore; Seoul; and Tokyo. Learn more at applied.co http://applied.co.
We are an in-office company, and our expectation is that full-time employees primarily work from their Applied Intuition office 5 days a week. However, we also recognize the importance of flexibility and trust our employees to manage their schedules responsibly. This may include occasional remote work, starting the day with morning meetings from home before heading to the office, or leaving earlier when needed to accommodate family commitments. This in-office expectation does not apply to contractor positions
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ABOUT THE ROLE
We are looking for a software engineer to join our team working on the incorporation of modern machine learning approaches into production-grade sensor simulation. In this role you will work with our research team to apply state of the art approaches to model worlds and sensors such as Lidars, Radars and Cameras.
AT APPLIED INTUITION, YOU WILL:
- Drive research, development and deployment of generative and other machine learning techniques into our sensor simulator.
- Work closely with rendering and physics-based modeling teams to build novel approaches fusing the best of all techniques.
- Focus on projects with a clear path to production value and customer impact.
WE'RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO HAS:
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent
- 5+ years of experience building software components or (sub) systems that address real-world machine learning challenges
- A passion for turning their domain expertise into tooling that boosts the productivity of teams working on various real-world applications of autonomous systems
- Hands-on experience with evaluation and optimization for large generative models
- Hands-on experience with agentic system design
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