Applied Intuition
Senior Software Engineer - Simulation Orchestration
$153K–$220K
Sunnyvale · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 30, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of backend engineering; 4+ years coding in Golang, Python, Java, or C++; 4+ years building complex backend systems on major cloud providers.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
About the job
Own and expand the compute platform that schedules and runs simulation and other workloads across environments.
What you'll do
- Develop workload scheduling, resource allocation, and node lifecycle capabilities.
- Address distributed-systems challenges such as GPU scheduling, autoscaling, and resource efficiency while ensuring production reliability and scalability.
- Collaborate with customers and internal teams, and drive architecture for a company-wide compute platform.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience, including ownership of production distributed systems.
- 4+ years coding in Golang, Python, Java, or C++; 4+ years building complex backend systems on major cloud providers.
- Deep Kubernetes expertise and experience building or operating workload scheduling systems.
Nice to have
- Experience scheduling GPU workloads or managing GPU capacity at scale.
- Multi-cloud or on-prem Kubernetes deployments; Infrastructure as Code; custom Kubernetes controllers or operators; or cloud cost optimization.
Pay
$153K – $220K (base salary; currency not stated)
Tools
Golang, Python, Java, C++, Kubernetes, AWS, OCI, GCP, Azure
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