About Applied Intuition
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.
Applied Intuition
In this role, you will build and lead an elite team of engineers tackling some of the most challenging technical problems for our customers. FDEs work directly with customer engineering teams to integrate Applied’s platform, develop custom capabilities and deliver solutions that accelerate autonomy development. In the process, they help translate real-world engineering challenges into product improvements, new platform capabilities, and repeatable workflows that benefit the broader ecosystem.
Operating at the intersection of product, engineering, and customer delivery, this team plays a critical role in ensuring customers successfully deploy and scale Applied’s platform. As the manager, you will drive technical execution across high-impact engagements while building a culture of engineering excellence, ownership, and customer impact.
At Applied Intuition, you will:
- Build, lead and grow a team of Forward Deployed Engineers delivering complex technical solutions for Applied’s most strategic customers
- Own delivery of customer engagements, including platform integrations, custom development, and deployment in production engineering environments
- Work directly with customer engineering teams to solve difficult autonomy development challenges and unblock critical workflows
- Drive high technical standards across the team in system design, debugging, and software quality
- Translate customer problems into scalable solutions, partnering with Product and Engineering to turn custom work into product capabilities
- Identify repeatable patterns from deployments and help build playbooks that scale across customers
- Collaborate with Sales and Solutions Engineering to scope complex engagements and support strategic customer relationships
We're looking for someone who has:
- 5+ years of experience in forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, or software engineering roles working directly with customers
- Bachelors degree in computer science or engineering related field
- Proficiency in AI developer tools like Cursor or Claude Code, Python, C++, or similar systems languages
- Experience managing engineers delivering complex technical projects
- Strong technical background in software development, distributed systems, or infrastructure
- Experience leading customer-facing engineering engagements involving system integration and custom development
Nice to have:
- Experience with autonomy development, robotics, or simulation platforms
- Background working with automotive OEMs, defense organizations, or robotics companies
- Experience building custom tooling or infrastructure in customer environments
Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Applied Intuition is an equal opportunity employer and federal contractor or subcontractor. Consequently, the parties agree that, as applicable, they will abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.4(a), 41 CFR 60-300.5(a) and 41 CFR 60-741.5(a) and that these laws are incorporated herein by reference. These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities, and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin. These regulations require that covered prime contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or disability. The parties also agree that, as applicable, they will abide by the requirements of Executive Order 13496 (29 CFR Part 471, Appendix A to Subpart A), relating to the notice of employee rights under federal labor laws.