Software Engineer - Onboard Maps and State Estimation

The role

You will own the onboard live-map estimator by fusing HD map priors with live perception. You will build map change detection, define map trust contracts, and ship estimation code in modern C++.

What you will do

• Own the onboard live-map estimator end to end
• Build onboard map change detection
• Define map trust contracts the planner builds against
• Build the evaluation backbone, ground-truth and metrics pipelines, operating points, and regression testing
• Ship estimation code in modern C++ that meets real-time budgets on embedded compute
• Extend the loop offboard by aggregating divergence detections across fleet drive logs

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 5+ years building production software
• At least one shipped system where they owned the estimation core
• State estimation fundamentals: factor graphs and/or filtering, data association, uncertainty representation and propagation, and 3D geometry and transforms
• Experience fusing heterogeneous sources such as prior map data, perception output, and raw sensors into a single world estimate
• Strong modern C++
• Ability to make estimation code meet real-time budgets on embedded compute
• Rigorous evaluation practice building ground-truth or metrics pipelines
• Judgment about uncertainty
• Experience defining a system and its interfaces and negotiating those contracts with consumer teams

Nice to have

• Map change detection or live/lifelong mapping experience
• HD map semantics: lane graphs, topology, map formats and their failure modes
• GTSAM or comparable factor-graph frameworks; Lie group methods
• Degraded-mode or integrity-monitor design for a safety-relevant function
• MS/PhD with a focus on state estimation or SLAM

Benefits

• Base salary
• Equity (options and/or restricted stock units)
• Comprehensive health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance coverage
• 401k retirement benefits with employer match
• Learning and wellness stipends
• Paid time off

About the company

Applied Intuition, Inc. is a Silicon Valley company creating digital infrastructure for physical AI. It services the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries.