Process Engineer

Applied Intuition•Sunnyvale, CA

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Applied Intuition is hiring a Process Engineer to join Vehicle Operations. This role will have a cross-program mandate covering Test, Fleet Reliability, Build, and On Road Deployment across their Automotive, Trucking, and Construction & Mining programs. The company is experiencing rapid scaling in operations and needs someone to bridge the gap between operational scaling and the methodology behind it. The Process Engineer will analyze the operational flow, measure time and cost, and identify high-leverage improvements. This involves both analysis and methodology design, as well as driving change end-to-end. The role requires recognizing patterns in operational problems across a fleet of over 100 vehicles in three distinct business areas, designing methodologies to solve them efficiently, and building measurement infrastructure to track effectiveness. The work follows a cycle of observing and measuring, analyzing, designing, implementing, and re-measuring, with the goal of compounding outputs to enable efficient operational scaling.

Requirements

BS in Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.
5+ years in process engineering, industrial engineering, operations engineering, or a comparable operational analyst role.
Demonstrated application of Lean, Six Sigma, or equivalent continuous improvement methodologies in a production or operational environment.
Track record of running time-and-motion studies, bottleneck analyses, and root cause investigations that led to measurable change.
Strong data fluency, comfortable pulling, structuring, and interpreting operational data (spreadsheets required; SQL or BI tools a plus).
Experience designing measurement frameworks and KPIs for operational teams.
Ability to influence without authority — your output gets adopted across teams that don't report to you.
Excellent written communication. The deliverable is a clear, structured finding that's ready to act on, not a deck.

Nice To Haves

Background in automotive, robotics, autonomous vehicles, manufacturing, aerospace, or another complex hardware + software operations environment.
Experience scaling operations from pilot through commercial deployment.
Familiarity with fleet operations, vehicle servicing and uptime, or test and deployment cycles.
ISO 9001 / QMS exposure.
Lean Six Sigma Green or Black Belt certification.
MS in Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.

Responsibilities

Workflow and throughput analysis: time-and-motion studies and bottleneck identification across vehicle prep, dispatch, rework, retrofit, and deployment loops.
Root cause analysis: design and apply structured RCA frameworks for recurring failures, and surface cross-program patterns where the same root cause is driving issues in multiple verticals.
Measurement framework design: define how operational performance is instrumented and build the dashboards and signals that show whether changes are actually working.
Process templates and standards: develop SOP structures, runbook formats, checklist templates, and training assessment models that scale across verticals.
Cross-vertical pattern recognition: identify where the same problem appears in Test, Build, Fleet Reliability, and On Road Deployment so we design the solution once instead of three or four times.
Continuous improvement: bring Lean / Six Sigma rigor to operational problems and embed it into how the organization runs.