Applied Intuition
Software Engineer - Onboard Maps and State Estimation
$190K–$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 build an onboard live-map estimation system that fuses map priors and perception for autonomous vehicles, including change detection, planner-facing trust semantics, evaluation, and real-time deployment.
What you'll do
- Develop the live-map estimator and map change-detection system, defining when the planner should trust map data.
- Define planner-facing confidence and degraded-mode contracts across vehicle programs.
- Build evaluation and regression pipelines, and ship estimation code in modern C++ for embedded real-time compute.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- 5+ years building production software, including ownership of the estimation core of at least one shipped system.
- Production experience with state estimation, sensor/map/perception fusion, uncertainty, data association, and 3D geometry.
- Strong modern C++, real-time embedded development, rigorous evaluation practice, and experience defining system interfaces.
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
$190K – $265K (base salary)
Tools
C++, GTSAM
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