Applied Intuition
Software Engineer - Onboard Maps
$170K–$265K
Sunnyvale · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years building production software; includes at least one shipped system where the candidate owned the estimation core.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
About the job
Own and develop the onboard live-map system that fuses map data and perception into real-time estimates, detects map changes, and provides trustworthy map information to autonomous vehicle planners.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain the live-map estimator, map-change detection, and map-trust contracts for planner systems.
- Create evaluation, ground-truth, metrics, and regression-testing pipelines to monitor system quality.
- Ship real-time estimation software in modern C++ for embedded compute and extend map-freshness workflows using fleet logs.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- 5+ years building production software, including ownership of the estimation core for at least one shipped system.
- Production experience with state estimation, sensor or data fusion, uncertainty characterization, and 3D geometry and transforms.
- Strong modern C++, real-time embedded-compute experience, rigorous evaluation practice, and experience defining system interfaces with consumer teams.
Nice to have
- Map change detection or live/lifelong mapping; HD map semantics.
- GTSAM or comparable factor-graph frameworks, Lie group methods, degraded-mode or integrity-monitor design, or an MS/PhD focused on state estimation or SLAM.
Pay
$170K – $265K USD base salary
Tools
C++, GTSAM
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