Senior Software Engineer - Simulation Orchestration
Applied Intuition•Sunnyvale, CA
•$153,000 - $220,000•Onsite
About The Position
As a senior software engineer on the Simulation Orchestration team, you will own the compute platform that Applied Intuition's autonomy products run on. Our customers, and our own internal self-driving programs, run millions of simulations to validate every change to their self-driving stack — throughput is directly how fast they ship. From that foundation, the team is expanding to own on-demand compute scheduling and capacity management across Applied: one platform, any workload, any environment.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with a track record of owning production distributed systems.
- 4+ years of coding in Golang, Python, Java, or C++.
- 4+ years building complex backend systems on major cloud providers.
- Deep Kubernetes expertise, including pod scheduling, node lifecycle, and autoscaling under load.
- Experience building or operating workload scheduling systems (e.g., dispatch, bin-packing, quota enforcement).
- Self-starter with experience driving production system development from 0 to 1.
Nice To Haves
- Experience scheduling GPU workloads or managing GPU capacity at scale.
- Multi-cloud (AWS, OCI, GCP, Azure) or on-prem Kubernetes deployments.
- Experience managing multi-cluster environments using Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience building custom Kubernetes controllers or operators.
- Experience with cloud cost optimization strategies for high-scale compute workloads.
Responsibilities
- Develop a multi-environment compute platform for workload scheduling, resource allocation, and node lifecycle.
- Collaborate with customers and internal teams to translate compute needs into platform features.
- Solve distributed systems challenges including GPU scheduling, autoscaling, and resource efficiency.
- Ensure high reliability and scalability for production simulation systems.
- Drive architecture decisions to expand simulation orchestration into a company-wide compute platform.
Benefits
- Base salary
- Equity
- Comprehensive health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance coverage
- 401k retirement benefits with employer match
- Learning and wellness stipends
- Paid time off
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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