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Applied Intuition is a $15B-valued AI infrastructure company powering autonomous systems across automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining, and agriculture. The company serves 18 of the top 20 global automakers and the U.S. military, providing tools, operating systems, and autonomy solutions for physical AI applications.
In this Data Engineer role on the Axion product team, you will own the design and optimization of data pipelines that power machine learning models at scale. Your responsibilities include evolving the data engine architecture to handle high-fidelity labels, reducing annotation costs, and accelerating ML iteration cycles. You'll integrate foundation models (LLMs, VLMs, and multimodal models) to automate and enhance labeling, quality assurance, and data discovery workflows. The role involves leveraging software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop testing methodologies, and you'll interact directly with DoD customers to understand use cases, requirements, and field event needs to deliver superior customer experience.
You bring 5+ years of relevant work experience with strong familiarity in modern ML infrastructure, data-centric AI approaches, and running large-scale GPU jobs. You have hands-on experience building or working on microservices and/or databases for data-oriented software. You're eager to learn and grow into a position of ownership and impact on a new product team. U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain a security clearance are legally required.
Nice-to-have skills include full-stack experience with React, TypeScript, Python, or Golang; Docker, Kubernetes, Opensearch, and Postgres; direct experience with foundation models for data automation; background in autonomous driving or robotics perception; and experience with active learning, auto-labeling, or human-in-the-loop ML systems.
Applied Intuition is an in-office company with the expectation that full-time employees work from the Sunnyvale office 5 days per week, with flexibility for occasional remote work and schedule adjustments. The company offers competitive compensation including base salary, equity (options/RSUs), comprehensive health/dental/vision/life/disability insurance, 401k with employer match, learning and wellness stipends, and paid time off.
