Applied Intuition
Software Engineer - Kafka
$153K–$222K
Sunnyvale · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jul 9, 2025
- Experience
- 2+ years of professional experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
About the job
Builds large-scale data and machine-learning infrastructure for autonomy, including systems for ingesting, processing, storing, curating, and labeling real-world sensor data.
What you'll do
- Design and build large-scale data platforms for AI research and autonomy development.
- Develop data curation, tagging, dataset discovery, labeling, and quality-assessment platforms.
- Build distributed processing systems that convert raw sensor data into training-ready formats.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
- 2+ years of professional experience.
- Strong backend engineering experience.
- Problem-solving skills and experience working with cross-functional teams in fast-paced environments.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with modern data-stack or distributed-processing technologies.
- Knowledge of data lake architectures, streaming systems, and workflow orchestration platforms.
Pay
$153K – $222K (base salary)
Tools
Apache Spark, Apache Hudi, Trino, Apache Kafka, Flyte, Kubernetes, Python, Golang
AI focus
Builds data and machine-learning infrastructure supporting AI research and autonomy, including preparing sensor data for model training.
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