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title: 'Product Manager - Data Engine at Applied Intuition'
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# Product Manager - Data Engine at Applied Intuition

- **Company:** [Applied Intuition](https://feeny.ai/companies/applied-intuition)
- **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA
- **Compensation:** $175k–$250k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-11-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/applied/f9926b5d-475a-42cc-bd6e-f39bae5d26a8

## Job description

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. 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](http://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

Data Engine powers the data workflows behind Applied Intuition's autonomy programs across Cars, Trucks, Industrials, and Defense. We are hiring a Senior Product Manager to make it a coherent platform that technical teams can discover, adopt, and rely on—from bringing data into the system to producing useful, traceable datasets. Your first customers are the engineers and researchers building autonomy inside Applied. You will work directly with them to understand how they get work done, identify where shared capabilities can replace duplicated effort, and turn their needs into a clear product strategy. Your responsibility extends across ingestion, processing, data discovery, enrichment, quality, and dataset delivery—not just the boundaries of a single engineering team. You will also own the external product roadmap, customer discovery, and packaging for this platform, working with commercial partners on pricing and go-to-market. You will determine what transfers to external customers and what additional deployment, onboarding, and support capabilities they need. Success is helping teams complete important workflows more easily, reuse capabilities across programs, and depend less on bespoke integrations and engineering assistance. At Applied Intuition, you will

- Own the end-to-end product. Set the vision, roadmap, and priorities across multiple teams behind our Data Engine. Define the workflows we support, their users, and what a reliable production experience requires.
- Stay close to users. Observe real workflows, interview users and non-users, investigate workarounds, and combine that evidence with usage and support signals. Make sure teams understand what happened to their feedback and why.
- Build shared capabilities without erasing real differences. Decide what belongs in the common platform, what needs configuration or extension points, and what should remain program-specific. Make explicit choices about what not to build.
- Own adoption beyond launch. Partner with design and engineering on APIs, interfaces, documentation, examples, onboarding, and migrations. Help users find existing capabilities and retire duplicated implementations when the shared path is ready.
- Make technical tradeoffs with engineering. Translate user needs into clear requirements and acceptance criteria. Balance reliability, data quality, latency, cost, compatibility, and delivery speed while respecting security and data-residency constraints.
- Connect internal and external needs. Lead external discovery, define a repeatable offering and its limits, and build a commercial roadmap with sales and customer-facing partners. Avoid turning individual customer requests into permanent product forks.
- Measure outcomes and communicate decisions. Track workflow success, onboarding time, adoption, support effort, and reuse. Explain priorities, tradeoffs, and risks clearly to program teams and leadership.

We're looking for someone who has

- MS/BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience
- 4+ years of Product Management experience at a top tech company or high-growth startup
- A record of owning complex technical products from discovery through delivery, adoption, and iteration, with senior-level responsibility for decisions and results.
- Experience serving technical users through a shared platform, developer product, or data/ML product, including reconciling competing needs across multiple teams or customers.
- Strong discovery skills: you can distinguish a requested feature from the underlying problem and show how user evidence changed a product decision.
- Sound platform judgment: you can balance reuse with necessary specialization, set support boundaries, and sequence migration without blocking users' work.
- Technical fluency in data flows, APIs, workflow orchestration, data quality, and production operations. You can discuss architectural tradeoffs with engineers.

## Nice to have

- Experience with autonomy, robotics, sensor data, or other physical AI workflows.
- Experience with ingestion, catalogs and lineage, data processing, ML data pipelines, or workflow orchestration.
- Experience converting an internal platform into an external product, or supporting customer-controlled and multi-region deployments.
- Prior software engineering experience or hands-on work with technical users, APIs, and developer tooling.

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. 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!

## About Applied Intuition

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Applied Intuition builds software and digital infrastructure to bring physical AI — autonomous driving and robotics — to every moving machine on the planet.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C; $1.5B total funding raised)
- **Headquarters**: Sunnyvale, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Qasar Younis (CEO) and Peter Ludwig (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Autonomous driving, robotics, defense technology, simulation and validation software for ADAS/AD systems.
- **Target customers**: B2B — automotive OEMs (18 of top 20 global automakers), trucking, construction, mining, agriculture, and the U.S. Department of Defense and its allies.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “To build physical AI that creates a safer, more prosperous world.”

## Products & Services
- **Tools for Vehicle Intelligence**: Simulation, validation, and data management platforms for ADAS and autonomous vehicle development. SaaS and software tools for engineers building intelligent machines.
- **Vehicle OS**: An operating system for vehicles that manages over-the-air updates, data pipelines, and in-vehicle software, enabling automakers to deploy and maintain software-defined vehicles at scale.
- **Self-Driving Systems / Autonomy Stack**: End-to-end autonomous driving solutions, including perception, planning, and control, designed for cars, trucks, and off-road machinery.
- **NextGen OS & Infrastructure**: Platforms for defense, robotics, and next-generation physical AI applications, including solutions used by the U.S. military.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: ~$15 billion (as of 2024/2025, per LinkedIn profile)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $1.5 billion; 1,153 employees (+55% YoY); 396 active job postings
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Floodgate, NVIDIA, Databricks; partners include 18 of top 20 global automakers and U.S. defense agencies.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Acquired EpiSci (Feb 2025), Caliber Data Labs, and entities in Germany/UK.
  - Headcount grew 55% YoY; 1,000+ engineers.
  - Office expansion to 12 countries (US, UK, Germany, Sweden, South Korea, Japan, India, etc.).
  - Active hiring — job postings up 117.6% YoY.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep domain expertise**: Founded by YC alum/former GM engineer (Qasar Younis) and ex-Google Maps/Android Automotive engineer (Peter Ludwig).
- **Talent density**: 1,000+ engineers, 40+ ex-CTOs, and 30+ former founders on staff — a unique concentration of senior, founder-level talent.
- **Breadth of industry coverage**: Serves automotive, defense, trucking, mining, agriculture, and construction — rare diversification in physical AI.
- **Trusted by government and top OEMs**: U.S. military and 18 of top 20 global automakers rely on their stack, creating high switching costs and deep moats.
- **End-to-end platform**: Covers simulation, validation, OS, and full autonomy stack — not just a point solution.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expansion into defense**: Heavy investment in defense AI, including acquisitions and dedicated government offices in Washington D.C., San Diego, and Ft. Walton Beach.
- **Scaling physical AI beyond automotive**: Driving autonomy into mining, agriculture, construction, drones, and satellites.
- **Growing global footprint**: Opening offices in Europe and Asia to serve local OEM and defense clients.
- **Deepening the research lab**: Building a world-class AI research team focused on real-world intelligence.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “1,000 engineers, 40 ex-CTOs, and 30 former founders” — a high-agency, high-trust environment where engineers take ownership of hard problems from day one.
- **Impact**: Work on technology that goes from sports cars to fighter jets to mining trucks — real-world physical AI that saves lives and reshapes industries.
- **Benefits**:
  - 100% employer-paid medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
  - 50% 401(k) matching
  - Up to 12 weeks fully paid parental leave
  - Learning stipend for education and training
  - Fitness and wellness stipend
  - 25 free Lyra coaching/therapy sessions per year
  - Catered lunches and expensed dinners, snacks, and drinks at offices
  - Alumni network for long-term professional connections
- **Work model**: Office-first culture with global hubs (12 offices across US, Europe, and Asia). Not fully remote — roles are generally tied to a specific office location.

## Sources
1. [appliedintuition.com — About](https://www.appliedintuition.com/about)
2. [appliedintuition.com — Homepage](https://www.appliedintuition.com/)
3. [linkedin.com — Applied Intuition Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/applied-intuition-inc)
4. [appliedintuition.com — Careers](https://www.appliedintuition.com/careers)
5. [appliedintuition.com — Jobs](https://www.appliedintuition.com/jobs)

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