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# Data Engineer

- **Company:** Applied Intuition
- **Location:** Sunnyvale, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Data Discovery, Information Engineering, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, DataOps, TypeScript, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), ReactJS, Large Language Models, Kubernetes, Machine Learning Operations, Docker, Golang, Microservices
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/data-engineer-axion-appliedintuition-com-9000005

## About the Role

* 5+ years of relevant work experience
 * Familiarity with modern ML infrastructure, data-centric AI approaches and running large-scale jobs on GPUs
 * Created or worked on microservices and/or databases for data-oriented software
 * A hunger to learn and grow into a position of ownership and impact on a new product team
 * U.S. citizenship (legally required) and eligibility to obtain a security clearance

Nice to have:

 * Full-stack experience React, TypeScript Python, Golang or similar
 * Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Opensearch and Postgres
 * Direct experience with foundation models, including LLMs and VLMs, for data automation tasks
 * Background in autonomous driving or robotics perception
 * Experience with active learning, auto-labeling, or human-in-the-loop ML systems

## Description

* Evolve our data engine architecture to scale high-fidelity labels, reduce annotation costs, and accelerate ML iteration cycles
 * Integrate foundation models (LLMs, VLMs, and multimodal models) to automate and enhance labeling, quality assurance, and data discovery
 * Leverage software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop testing
 * Interact with the DoD customer to understand their use cases, requirements, and triage needs during field events to deliver a superior customer experience


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