Software Engineer - Control Center

Applied Intuition•Sunnyvale, CA

2d•$135,000 - $185,000•Onsite

About The Position

As a Software Engineer on the Control Center team, you will build the central operational platform that connects autonomous vehicle fleets to human operators across a wide range of industries including mining, commercial trucking, defense, industrial automation, and consumer AVs. Control Center acts as the central nervous system for autonomous operations, handling everything from continuous telemetry ingestion and real-time digital twins to mission orchestration, safety-critical geofencing, and site-wide path planning. In this role, you will own core platform domains end-to-end, building low-latency, ultra-reliable backend systems that scale across diverse vehicle types and operational environments-from public cloud deployments to air-gapped, on-premise sites.

Requirements

Proven backend/systems expertise: 4+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production distributed systems using Go, C++ or Python.
Real-time data experience: Hands-on experience with high-throughput streaming architectures, event-driven systems, or time-series data management (e.g., Kafka, gRPC, time-series DBs).
Strong system design & API instincts: Mastery of data modeling, API design, and distributed consensus, with a sharp focus on reliability, fault tolerance, and security.
Production ownership mindset: Comfort managing the full software lifecycle—including CI/CD, telemetry/observability, on-call rotations, and root-cause analysis for edge-case failure modes.
Product ownership in ambiguous spaces: Ability to take vague requirements, break down complex domain problems, and execute pragmatic trade-offs in a fast-paced environment.
Cross-functional collaboration: Excellent communication skills with a track record of bridging technical gaps between cloud software and hardware platforms

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with robotics protocols and middleware (CAN, MQTT, DDS, SOME/IP).
Experience deploying on Kubernetes across cloud-hosted and air-gapped/on-prem environments.
Background in safety-critical, functional safety, or heavily regulated domains (e.g. mining, automotive, industrial automation).

Responsibilities

Architect, implement, scale, and maintain critical control center subsystems - from high-throughput telemetry ingestion to live asset state tracking and mission orchestration
Design cloud and edge services where performance and correctness directly impact physical safety, including geofence enforcement, proximity alerts, and remote mission execution
Collaborate directly with autonomy, perception, and vehicle-platform teams to establish robust APIs, data protocols, and state synchronization frameworks
Build resilient data pipelines and APIs that transform high-volume vehicle metrics, logs, and state updates into actionable, queryable intelligence for customers
Deploy, observe, and harden SaaS services operating across public cloud, private infrastructure, and air-gapped on-premise environments
Partner with field engineers and deployment leads to debug live fleet operations, resolve real-world edge cases, and continuously close the feedback loop on platform reliability