# Software Integration Engineer - Defense 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: Mid level
- Location: Ann Arbor
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $120K to $170K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-26
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Applied/ecb90d7e-9609-4148-a23b-687bdd9fc6bd
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/applied-intuition-software-integration-engineer-defense/

## About the role

We're looking for a Systems Integration Engineer to own the hardware and software decisions that make a vehicle build actually work — from compute and sensor architecture down to harness routing, sensor tuning, and drive-by-wire (DBW) integration. You'll work hands-on across hardware, embedded, and autonomy software to take a vehicle from architecture to a working, demo-ready system.

## What they're looking for

- 2+ years of experience in systems/integration engineering, ideally on automotive, robotics, defense, or autonomy programs
- Working knowledge of vehicle hardware integration — harnessing, sensor/compute mounting, and hardware architecture — sufficient to make and defend build decisions
- Comfortable making and owning real engineering tradeoffs under a firm deadline (e.g., tuning approach, sensor spec, hardware architecture)
- Willingness and ability to travel extensively, including internationally and for multi-week stretches
- Excellent written and verbal communication, able to move fluidly between deep technical detail and higher-level engineering summaries
- Must be a U.S. Citizen

Tags: Defense