Senior Software Engineer

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.;
San Diego;
Ft. Walton Beach, Florida;
Ann Arbor, Michigan;
London;
Stuttgart;
Munich;
Stockholm;
Bangalore;
Seoul; and Tokyo. Learn more at

We are an in-office company, and our expectation is that full-time 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.

This in-office expectation does not apply to contractor positions

Full-time /London (Engineering)

About Applied Intuition Defence

Applied Intuition UK is a software and infrastructure supplier that accelerates the deployment of next-generation autonomous capabilities to the warfighter across air, land, sea, and space. A subsidiary of Applied Intuition, we deliver dual-use solutions to national security customers that build upon several years of product development and experience from commercial autonomy programs. Based in London, our seasoned defence team hails from Palantir, Anduril, SpaceX, Google, Lockheed Martin, and the UK and US Armed Services.

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About the role

As a senior software engineer on the UK engineering team, your day-to-day activities will vary. Somedays you might find yourself in the field, working alongside our forward deployment team integrating with customer platforms and technologies, other days you might be leading the design on a brand-new product to satisfy the requirements of various different customers and partners that we work with.

Every day is different, and each day is exciting. You are given the opportunity to showcase the skills you’ve learned during your career, and teach the more junior members of the team. You will build, test and deploy your software and watch it actually be used.

At Applied Intuition, you will:

• Lead the design, development, and optimization of new tools and products, taking them through from incubation all the way to production

• Spot the ineffectiveness of the processes and code you work with daily to ensure the team are always working to the best of their abilities

• Integrate software from customers and other teams into the products we are making

• Write, test, and debug efficient modern C++ code for complex software solutions with the help of AI tooling

• Work closely with product managers and customers to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions

• Train and mentor junior engineers as we grow the UK team, fostering a culture of learning and improvement

• Build awesome software that you are proud of

We’re looking for someone who has:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/related engineering field

• 5+ years of hands-on experience developing performant modern C++, or high willingness to learn C++ which is our primary programming language for all development

• Strong procedural and object-oriented programming experience that employs clean code principles and good OOP design patterns/principles

• Experience developing in Docker and containerized development environments, and using Linux-based operating systems

Travel Requirements:

• General willingness to travel for company business between our offices, as well as to customer sites

Security Requirements:

• Must have ability to hold UK Security Clearance (current or previous preferred)

Nice to have:

• 7+ years of…