Applied Intuition
Senior Software Engineer - Neural Simulation
$185K–$250K
Sunnyvale · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience shipping complex, large-scale software.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or computer engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Build distributed systems and ML infrastructure that turn real-world driving data into high-fidelity simulation environments and labeled data for autonomy development.
What you'll do
- Build scalable closed-loop simulation and large-scale data processing systems.
- Develop ML training, evaluation, validation, and inference infrastructure; optimize storage for multimodal data.
- Improve reliability, observability, and performance of distributed services and collaborate across product teams.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience shipping complex, large-scale software.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or computer engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience designing, building, and operating scalable distributed systems, data pipelines, and storage solutions.
- Experience with cloud platforms, containerized systems, and backend development in languages such as Python and Go.
Nice to have
- Experience with ML infrastructure, GPU workloads, batch orchestration, synthetic data, computer vision, 3D reconstruction, sensor simulation, autonomous driving, or robotics.
Pay
$185K – $250K USD base salary
Tools
SQL, NoSQL, AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, Go
AI focus
Build ML pipelines and infrastructure for training, evaluation, validation, and inference; support synthetic data generation and autonomy systems.
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