Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

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.

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

As a senior cloud infrastructure engineer on the UK team, your job is to make everyone around you faster. You will be embedded with the engineers you support, not sat in a separate platform silo, and you will feel the same pain they do - which is exactly why you will be the one to fix it. Some days you will be designing UK-hosted infrastructure from a blank page, choosing the tools and the patterns and getting it right from the get-go rather than inheriting somebody else's shortcuts. Other days you will be standing up a secure environment for a customer, debugging a deployment that only misbehaves inside their network, or getting UK-approved AI models serving inside a secure programme. You will also work closely with the infrastructure teams across the rest of Applied Intuition, taking their best ideas, sending yours back, and making sure the UK team is never the one waiting. Our customers are defence primes and national security organisations, and the systems you build are the ones they actually use.

At Applied Intuition, you will:

• Lead the design, development and architecture of the UK-hosted infrastructure used across our internal development teams.
• Build and deploy our products into cloud, on-premise and air-gapped environments using infrastructure as code, and support them through their whole operational life.
• Host UK securely approved AI models for use in secure programmes.
• Improve developer effectiveness by spotting the friction nobody else has bothered to fix and building the tooling that removes it.
• Take ownership of our CI/CD systems and deployment strategies, and help wire up Hardware in the Loop (HiL) integration.
• Debug and profile the awkward edge cases in distributed systems, and lead the response when something breaks.
• Work closely with product managers and customers to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Contribute your solutions back to the wider organisation and make their products better in the process.

We’re looking for someone who has:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science/related engineering field.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience building and deploying infrastructure for a production software product.
• Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure or GCP), and the judgement to know when a managed service is the right answer and when it isn't.
• Strong experience designing and building infrastructure with IaC tools such as Terraform, and a preference for describing systems in code over clicking through consoles.
• Expertise with Kubernetes, Docker and containerised systems, and experience deploying microservice-based applications on them.
• Confidence in one or more scripting languages (Python, Bash, etc.) and with Linux-based operating systems (Ubuntu, RHEL, etc.).
• Proven ability to take initiative in a fast-paced environment, and to leave systems better documented than you found them.

Travel Requirements:

General willingness to travel for company business between our offices, as well as to customer sites.

Security Requirements:

Must have ability to hold UK Security Clearance (current or previous preferred).

Nice to have:

• 7+ years of experience across infrastructure, platform or DevOps roles.
• Experience deploying Kubernetes on bare metal or into air-gapped and classified networks.
• Familiarity with applying security and regulatory controls, and with vulnerability patching across base OS images, networking and IAM.
• Experience with Bazel, Nix and other similar technologies.
• Experience serving ML models in production, or building data and real-time analysis pipelines.
• Experience working on projects related to national security for one or more government agencies.
• Prior work in autonomy, robotics or simulation products.
• References who will describe them as low-ego, highly motivated, thoughtfully opinionated, strong communicators and curious listeners.

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.