Hardware Systems Engineer, VOS

About Applied Intuition

Applied Intuition, Inc. is powering the future of physical AI. Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion, the Silicon Valley company is creating the digital infrastructure needed to bring intelligence to every moving machine on the planet. Applied Intuition services the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries in three core areas: tools and infrastructure, operating systems, and autonomy.

Eighteen of the top 20 global automakers, as well as the United States military and its allies, trust the company’s solutions to deliver physical intelligence. Applied Intuition is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in Washington, D.C.;
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We are an in-office company, and our expectation is that employees primarily work from their Applied Intuition office 5 days a week. However, we also recognize the importance of flexibility and trust our employees to manage their schedules responsibly. This may include occasional remote work, starting the day with morning meetings from home before heading to the office, or leaving earlier when needed to accommodate family commitments.

We're looking for a Hardware Systems Engineer with strong robotics and software expertise to own the system-, hardware-, and electrical/electronics (EE)-level requirements for a new Applied Intuition product of strategic importance. Working from vehicle-level requirements, you'll decompose and allocate them into clear, testable system and hardware requirements, and you'll define the EE systems for the test benches and rigs used to validate the product.

This is a requirements- and architecture-focused role - you will not perform hands‑on hardware development (no schematic capture, PCB layout, or board bring‑up). Instead, you define what the hardware and test infrastructure must do, own the requirements and architecture in a model‑based environment, and establish the process, tooling, and traceability foundations - ASPICE, Polarion, and Cameo - that the rest of the program builds on.

• Decompose and allocate vehicle‑level requirements into system-, hardware-, and EE‑level requirements; define system bounds, capabilities, and functional features.
• Convert customer needs and autonomy/Vehicle OS use cases into system and hardware requirements and operational objectives for the system as a whole.
• Ensure the built system meets its intended requirements, and keep requirements current as vehicle‑level requirements evolve.

• Define the electrical and electronics (EE) architecture for the test benches and rigs used to validate the product, including hardware‑in‑the‑loop (HIL) rigs and bench setups.
• Specify power distribution, wiring and harnessing, signal interfaces, instrumentation, data acquisition (DAQ), sensor/actuator emulation, and safety interlocks for benches and rigs.
• Capture bench and rig requirements and interfaces, and partner with the teams that build and maintain them so the infrastructure delivers the coverage needed to verify system and software requirements.

• Use Cameo (MBSE/SysML) to build, maintain, and analyze the functional and logical architecture, and define variant management for Vehicle OS products.

• Own validation and verification of requirements at both the system and hardware level.
• Maintain end‑to‑end traceability across user journeys, features, system requirements, subsystem/hardware/EE requirements, bench and rig definitions, and test cases – across the full toolchain.
• Define processes for ASPICE Level 2 compliance, partner with the QA team to meet industry standards (e.g., ISO 26262 functional safety), and configure Polarion (requirements management) and Cameo (architecture management) for compliant industry processes.

• Work daily with hardware, embedded, perception, and autonomy software teams, providing requirements…