Systems Engineer, Insights and Analytics (SDS Trucking)
- Salary
- $140K - $250K
- Level
- Senior
- Work type
- On-site · Sunnyvale
Not stated in the posting: visa.
Open. First seen 28 October 2026.
About the role
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.
Applied Intuition's standard text
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 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
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are looking for an experienced Systems Engineer with a strong data background to own insights, analytics, and development metrics for our SDS trucking team. You will define how we measure autonomy performance and engineering progress, then use fleet, test, and simulation data to show where the system stands and what to fix next. You will play a critical role in shaping the technical direction of our trucking program.
At Applied Intuition, you will:
- Define development and autonomy performance metrics, and implement them in code against fleet, test, and simulation data
- Build analyses and tooling (Python, SQL, or similar) that turn large datasets into clear insights on performance, gaps, and launch readiness
- Track metrics over time, catch regressions early, and guide engineering priorities with data
- Read autonomy stack code to trace system behavior back to requirements and root causes
- Write system requirements and define the validation strategy and roadmap to launch
- Drive verification and validation across simulation, closed-course, and on-road testing
- Build dashboards and readiness views for engineering leadership and customers
- Collaborate across autonomy, perception, hardware, safety, and test teams
We're looking for someone who has:
- 5+ years of experience in systems engineering, V&V, data science, or a related role in ADAS, autonomous driving (L2-L4, L4 preferred), or robotics
- MS/BS in Systems, Electrical, Mechanical, Computer Science, Robotics, Data Science, or equivalent
- Hands-on experience analyzing large datasets with Python and SQL, including statistics and data visualization
- Experience defining and reporting metrics that drive decisions on a development program
- Ability to read production code (Python, C++, or similar) well enough to trace behavior through an autonomy or robotics stack
- Strong systems engineering fundamentals: requirements, functional decomposition, architecture, and test planning
- Experience with V&V for ADAS/AD or robotics, including defining what is sufficient for launch
- Working knowledge of fault management and a solid understanding of AV stack components
- Strong communication skills for explaining data-driven findings to engineers, leadership, and customers
Nice to have:
- Autonomous trucking, off-highway, or off-road autonomy experience.
- Simulation-based validation and scenario-based testing
Applied Intuition's standard text
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.
Applied Intuition's standard text
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.
FOR US-BASED ROLES: Applied Intuition is committed to providing an accessible and inclusive application and interview experience to applicants who are disabled veterans and other applicants with disabilities or medical conditions. Reasonable accommodations are available, requesting an accommodation will not affect your candidacy in any way, and you are not required to disclose the nature of your disability or medical condition in order to make a request. If you require an accommodation please contact careers@applied.co. We will work with you!
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
SQL
Rare in Applied Intuition's other 277 open postings.
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Python
Common in software engineering postings at any company.
78% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Applied Intuition's standard text, folded away below.
Compared with Applied Intuition's other open jobs.
The team: Software Engineering - Self-Driving HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 43 open in Software Engineering - Self-Driving. 6 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in July: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
C++ (28 of 43), Python (20 of 43), Machine Learning (18 of 43), Deep Learning (9 of 43), Linux (7 of 43), PyTorch (6 of 43), C (4 of 43)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- System Engineer posted Oct 27
- System Validation Engineer - Autonomous Driving posted Oct 23
- Application Engineer - Trucking posted Oct 18
- Vehicle Controls - Technical Lead posted Oct 2
- Software Engineer - Low Speed Motion Planning & Control posted Oct 2
- Prediction and Planning - Technical Lead posted Sep 10
- Self-Driving System (SDS) Engineering Head posted Aug 18
- Robotics Integration Engineer (TL) posted Aug 13
- Software Engineer - Embedded Systems posted Aug 7
- Machine Learning Engineer - Behavior and Planning posted Jul 29
- Perception Engineer - Offroad posted Jul 21
- Technical Program Manager - Core Autonomy posted Jul 20
- Software Engineer - Perception (Fallback Stack) posted Jul 19
- Senior Software Engineer - Perception posted Jul 13
- Software Engineer - Controls posted Jun 30
- Senior Software Engineer - Planning posted Jun 30
- Software Engineer - Autonomy posted Jun 30
- Engineering Manager - Perception, Self-Driving Systems posted Jun 10
- Function Developer – Parking posted Apr 15
- Autonomy Verification Engineer posted Apr 10
- Technical Lead, Mining Autonomy Platform posted Apr 4
- Software Engineer - Python posted Mar 18
- Software Engineer - Motion Planning (Fallback Stack) posted Mar 12
- Field Deployment Engineer posted Mar 10
- Software Engineer - Systems Engineering AI Tooling posted Mar 7
- Software Engineer - Backend posted Mar 5
- Software Engineer - C++ posted Mar 4
- Software Engineer (SDS Core - Evaluation) posted Feb 10
- Software Engineer Low Speed Motion Planning & Control Planning posted Feb 5
- Software Engineer - Mapping and Localization posted Feb 5
- Planning - Technical Lead posted Nov 21
- Software Engineer - ML Framework posted Nov 5
- Machine Learning Software Engineer posted Oct 23
- Engineering Manager - Behavior posted Sep 24
- Software Engineer - Performance Optimization posted Sep 11
- Systems Engineer posted Mar 10
- ML Runtime Optimization Engineer posted Mar 5
- System Safety Engineer, Autonomy Trucking posted Nov 15
- ML Perception Software Engineer posted Sep 8
- Triage Engineer posted Jun 19
- Scenario Engineer, Mining Autonomy posted Feb 23
- Software Engineer - Planning posted Jul 29
From the team and dates on Applied Intuition's own job board.
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