Applied Intuition
Engineering Manager - Behavior
$204K–$343K
Sunnyvale · On-site · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2025
- Experience
- 5+ years in robotics or autonomous systems, with a focus on behavior systems.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in any field, or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
About the job
Leads the team building and deploying behavior-planning systems for autonomous vehicles across multiple driving domains and vehicle types.
What you'll do
- Set strategy, technical roadmap, and architecture for L2 and L4 behavior planning; evolve the architecture toward an L4 end-to-end stack.
- Guide development of robust, safety-critical behavior algorithms and coordinate integration with cross-functional teams.
- Manage and grow the engineering team, mentor engineers, and partner with customers on technical and business decisions.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience in robotics or autonomous systems, focused on behavior systems.
- Experience in two or more listed areas, including behavior planning, decision-making under uncertainty, path or motion planning, probabilistic reasoning, prediction, machine learning, trajectory generation, mapless driving, or end-to-end autonomy.
- Demonstrated ability to architect large-scale production software for real-world robotic or automotive systems.
- Proven engineering-team leadership, including setting goals and overseeing technical projects.
Nice to have
- Direct experience working in end-to-end autonomy.
- Hands-on experience with ML-driven and rule-based behavior planning, intent detection, or risk assessment; success applying machine learning and AI to autonomous-vehicle decision-making.
Pay
$204K – $343K (base salary)
Tools
L2, L4, machine learning, AI
AI focus
Builds behavior systems for autonomous vehicles, including machine-learning and AI methods for complex decision-making; evolves toward an L4 end-to-end autonomy stack.
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