Software Engineer (Stack, SDS, Tooling)

• The Stack Tooling team builds software infrastructure across multiple autonomy verticals to help engineering teams test, analyze failures, and deploy faster
• The team works on problems central to production autonomy rollout: local and cloud simulation realism, performance, and scale-up, autonomy CI and deployment pipelines, data pipelines for fast decision-making on new changes
• As a Software Engineer on this team, you will execute highly cross-functional projects supporting autonomy developers, systems engineers, and triage and release teams
• The work done by the team aims to cover multiple autonomy domains at once — a change that impacts trucking can quickly scale out to cars and offroad vehicles
• Work on consolidating common dependencies (simulation artifacts, testing methods, agentic development loops, etc.) into a single ecosystem
• Integrate with cutting edge neural rendering tools and Applied’s Dana platform to enable faster analysis and stronger conclusions
• Enable safety-critical event analysis and response, pushing the limits of realistic log resimulation
• Increase hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation testing fidelity so autonomy engineers detect issues before rollout to the road
• Stabilize, generalize, and scale code deployment and offboard vehicle pre-checks to eliminate vehicle downtime and maximize testing uptime

Benefits

• Health Insurance: Applied covers 100% of the cost and offers medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Fitness Stipend: Our wellness program supports your health and fitness goals. We pay for your trainers, gym memberships, massages, and more!
• 401(k) Match: 50% employer matching to help you save money for retirement
• Learning Stipend: We invest in your learning and growth by reimbursing you for educational and training expenses
• Parental leave: 12-week, fully paid parental leave to bond with a newborn child or new adopted or foster child
• Catered lunch, expensed dinner, on-site meals and snacks- Strong foundational programming experience in C++
• Experience maintaining critical path developer tooling infrastructure
• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping production-grade code
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related engineering field
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and/or managing resources in customer environments
• Preferred Master’s degree in Robotics or other autonomy-related engineering field
• Exposure to software simulation tooling and either RL-based, physics-based, or reconstruction-based simulation runtimes
• Prior experience with data pipelining architectures, maps validity, or metrics and evaluation frameworks
• Prior experience working on perception modeling, planning, controls, or other onboard robotics functions
• Previous background working with automotive OEMs, autonomous vehicles, or robotic development platforms
• Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles