# Product Manager - Digital Proving Grounds at Applied Intuition

- Company: Applied Intuition
- What the company does: Applied Intuition powers physical AI, automating machines across automotive, defense, trucking, mining, construction, & agriculture. Backed by General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins and a16z.
- Company website: https://www.appliedintuition.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Sunnyvale
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $185K to $270K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-27
- Apply by: 2026-12-11
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/applied/bb2789bc-822d-4bfb-b4ea-f0d5940d62ec?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/applied-intuition-product-manager-digital-proving-grounds/

## About the role

Applied Intuition's Digital Proving Grounds (DPGs) give the Department of War a vendor-neutral place to test autonomous systems from many companies together, against a real mission, before they reach the field. A DPG covers the full path from software-in-the-loop (SIL) simulation to hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), live-virtual-constructive (LVC), and live exercises. Teams find integration problems in simulation, where fixes take hours, instead of at a live event, where they take weeks. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- A bachelor's degree in a technical field (Computer Science, Engineering, or related) or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of product management experience shipping complex technical products, including end-to-end ownership of a simulation, test, or engineering platform used by technical teams
- Deep technical fluency in simulation. You can discuss fidelity, sensor models, determinism, distributed sim at scale, and HIL with engineers, and you know when a sim result is good enough to trust
- A track record of taking a technical product from custom, per-customer deployments to a repeatable product that customers adopt and renew
- Comfort as an IC who owns a whole product and drives cross-functional outcomes through influence, not direct reports
- Excellent written and verbal communication, with engineers and with senior government and industry leaders

Tags: Software Engineering - Defense

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