Applied Intuition
Senior Software Engineer - Data Engine
$200K–$275K
Sunnyvale · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 21, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of relevant work experience.
- Education
- Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or relevant field
- Visa sponsorship
- U.S. citizenship is legally required; must be eligible to obtain a security clearance.
About the job
Build and optimize edge and cloud data systems that process video, run perception models, and support continual model improvement.
What you'll do
- Construct optimized pipelines and evolve the data engine to scale labels, reduce annotation costs, and accelerate ML iteration.
- Integrate foundation models to automate labeling, quality assurance, and data discovery; use software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
- Work with DoD customers to understand use cases and requirements and triage needs during field events.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of relevant work experience.
- Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or relevant field.
- Familiarity with modern ML infrastructure, data-centric AI approaches, and large-scale GPU jobs.
- Experience creating or working on microservices and/or databases for data-oriented software; U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain a security clearance.
Nice to have
- Full-stack experience with React, TypeScript, Python, Golang, or similar; Docker, Kubernetes, Opensearch, or Postgres.
- Foundation-model experience for data automation, autonomous driving or robotics perception, or active learning, auto-labeling, or human-in-the-loop ML systems.
Pay
$200K – $275K USD base salary; equity offered, amount not stated
Tools
React, TypeScript, Python, Golang, Docker, Kubernetes, Opensearch, Postgres
AI focus
Run and optimize perception models at the edge and in the cloud; use LLMs, VLMs, and multimodal foundation models for labeling, quality assurance, and data discovery.
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