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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 US military, with headquarters in Sunnyvale and offices globally.
This role owns the operational safety compliance and assurance framework across all programs—establishing unified procedures, incident management, and regulatory compliance standards. You will build company-wide standards for safety procedures, incident classification, compliance obligations, and audit-ready records that apply consistently across automotive, trucking, and industrial programs.
Key responsibilities:
- Establish unified operational framework across programs, including SOPs, readiness checklists, and incident taxonomy
- Own operational safety ownership map, identifying responsibilities, gaps, and cross-functional dependencies
- Develop and maintain safety-driven operational procedures in partnership with Systems Engineering and Program Management
- Represent Operations in change control and deployment readiness reviews
- Own operational compliance framework, including permits, authorizations, customer obligations, audits, and regulatory changes
- Ensure fleet compliance requirements are met and documented (inspections, maintenance, safety-critical parts, defect containment, DOT drug/alcohol testing)
- Own incident management end-to-end: classification, response, RCA, CAPA, and verified effectiveness
- Drive cross-program incident and safety trend analysis; ensure lessons learned reach all field teams
- Define and maintain operational safety evidence, support safety cases and customer assurances, report safety performance to leadership
This is a cross-program mandate, not program-embedded. Individual programs continue to execute; your job ensures they execute against the same standard and can prove it.
Applied Intuition expects full-time employees to work in-office 5 days per week, with flexibility for occasional remote work and schedule adjustments for family commitments.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 7+ years of experience in operational compliance, transportation safety, program management, or related field, including 3+ years in a safety-critical or regulated environment
- Proven ownership of compliance programs, including building and maintaining underlying framework
- Experience standardizing processes across multiple programs, sites, or business units
- Strong experience with root cause analysis and CAPA through verified closure
- Proven ability to build audit-ready documentation and recordkeeping systems
- Excellent written communication, with ability to create clear operator procedures and concise executive-level summaries
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, or related technical field (equivalent experience leading complex commercial vehicle or autonomy operations may substitute)
NICE TO HAVE:
- Experience in autonomous vehicles, trucking, mining, aviation, rail, or other safety-critical regulated industry
- Experience across multiple operating domains
- Working knowledge of DOT, FMCSA, OSHA, MSHA requirements; familiarity with state AV permitting
- Familiarity with safety case methodologies and standards (ISO 26262, SOTIF, UL 4600)
- Relevant safety certification (CSP, OSHA 500/501, MSHA Part 46/48)
- Experience supporting multiple customer programs with differing contractual and safety requirements
