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Software Engineer (Onboard Maps and State Estimation)

Applied Intuition

Skills

Required

  • State estimation
  • Map change detection / live/lifelong mapping
  • modern C++
  • building production software
  • negotiating
  • fusing heterogeneous sources
  • prior map data
  • factor graphs and/or filtering
  • data association
  • 3D geometry and transforms
  • embedded compute

Preferred

  • Degraded-mode or integrity-monitor design
  • SLAM
  • ground-truth or metrics pipelines
  • HD map semantics
  • lane graphs
  • map formats

Join our Localization, Calibration, and Mapping team as a Software Engineer. You'll own the onboard live-map estimator, build our onboard map change detection, define map trust contracts, and ship estimation code in modern C++. This is a unique opportunity to set the architecture and define interfaces for a core system leveraged across the entire organization. Enjoy benefits such as 100% health insurance coverage, a fitness stipend, 401(k) match, learning stipend, parental leave, and catered meals.

About Applied Intuition

Judgment about uncertainty: understands the difference between an error that degrades gracefully and one that is catastrophic, and designs the system accordingly

Responsibilities

  • Own the onboard live-map estimator end to end, fusing HD map priors with live perception into a real-time estimate of the world.
  • Build the onboard map change detection system, classifying situations like boundary shifts and defining when the planner should stop trusting the map.
  • Define the map trust contracts the planner builds against, including confidence semantics, degraded-mode behavior, and operating points across vehicle programs.
  • Rigorous evaluation practice: has built ground-truth or metrics pipelines and used them to hold a shipped operating point and prevent regressions
  • HD map semantics: lane graphs, topology, map formats and their failure modes

Requirements

  • 5+ years building production software, including at least one shipped system where they owned the estimation core
  • Experience defining a system and its interfaces and negotiating those contracts with consumer teams
  • Experience fusing heterogeneous sources such as prior map data, perception output, and raw sensors, into a single world estimate, with rigorous error characterization
  • State estimation fundamentals proven in production: factor graphs and/or filtering, data association, uncertainty representation and propagation, and 3D geometry and transforms
  • Strong modern C++ and the ability to make estimation code meet real-time budgets on embedded compute
  • Map change detection or live/lifelong mapping experience
  • GTSAM or comparable factor-graph frameworks; Lie group methods

Preferred

  • Degraded-mode or integrity-monitor design for a safety-relevant function
  • MS/PhD with a focus on state estimation or SLAM

Pay

USD 190,000 - 265,000

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