Job Description
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.; San Diego; Ft. Walton Beach, Florida; Ann Arbor, Michigan; London; Stuttgart; Munich; Stockholm; Bangalore; Seoul; and Tokyo. Learn more at applied.co .
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.
Meet our engineers on the Vehicle OS team!
Vehicle OS is a flexible suite of products that help vehicle manufacturers develop, deploy, and update complete vehicle software and AI applications. This is one of the fastest growing projects here at Applied, and we are seeking exceptional talent to drive execution.
About the role
As part of the Core OS team helping build Applied Intuition’s Vehicle OS product, you will develop and maintain all BSP, firmware, and system software for advanced ARM64 compute platforms, delivering high-performance features like VirtualIO, HAL, OTA, and advanced media capabilities for Vehicle OS. You'll work with cutting-edge embedded platforms and top SoC vendors, developing software on modern OSs and frameworks in a virtualized environment to power the real cars of the near future on real roads.
As a Senior Software Engineer, AOSP, you will play a key role in developing and maintaining the Android (AOSP) operating system and foundational system software for automotive platforms, collaborating closely with hardware, firmware, and cross-functional teams. If you have deep expertise in embedded systems, Android (AAOS, AOSP frameworks), Linux and QNX kernels, and a passion for building robust solutions at a rapid pace, we’d love to connect.
At Applied Intuition, you will:
Develop, maintain, and optimize Android (AOSP) HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer), services, libraries, apps, and Linux kernel modules using industry best practices
Diagnose, analyze, and resolve crashes or performance issues with Linux drivers and AOSP components such as HAL, services, libraries, and apps
Apply strong OS fundamentals (IPC, virtual memory, concurrency/threading, etc.) to write software that meets demanding requirements for performance, stability, CPU/RAM utilization, code size, and concurrency
Work closely with cross-functional teams, including testers, product managers, and other developers, to deliver robust and innovative software solutions
Contribute to the architecture and implementation of vehicle hypervisors and embedded OS components for next-generation automotive platforms
Stay at the cutting edge of ARM64 platforms and hypervisor technologies, building mission-critical and engaging software experiences for SDVs
Collaborate with application teams to ensure seamless integration between system software and the user interface
We're looking for someone who has:
5+ years of Android (AOSP) systems software development experience on at least one of the popular SoC platforms (Qualcomm, NVIDIA, TI, NXP, Mediatek, etc)
5+ years of experience programming in C, C++ for ARM or X86 platforms
Experience with Git, Gerrit, Github and ... (truncated, view full listing at source)