Founding Developer Tooling Engineer - Middle East

Riyadh Office & Depot Autonomous Vehicles Full-time Posted Oct 27, 2026
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About this role

Applied Intuition is hiring a Founding Developer Tooling Engineer - Middle East, full-time, on-site in Riyadh Office & Depot, in the Autonomous Vehicles sector.

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 .

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
We are looking for a software engineer with a passion for improving developer experience and deployment processes. In this role, you will work across engineering teams to identify key sources of friction, improve workflows, develop new tools, and generally uplevel the velocity and reliability of the entire software, and automotive development and deployment lifecycle.

At Applied Intuition, you will:

  • Design, build, and improve the tools, libraries, and frameworks for our engineering team

  • Build and test scalable tools for deploying to various automotive and cloud platforms

  • Optimize our compile/build times using tools like Bazel, CMake, Docker

  • Improve software deployment and data collection frameworks

  • Identify and solve bottlenecks within our software stack

We're looking for someone who has:

  • 2+ years of relevant experience

  • Experience designing, provisioning, and maintaining public cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).

  • Self-starter with a "can-do" attitude, high energy, and the independence to drive projects forward

  • Strong expertise in Python

  • Experience with CI, build, and deployment technologies like Bazel, Buildkite, Docker, Kubernetes, and comfortability with scripting for automation

  • Experience with Linux

Nice to have:

  • Experience using Go, C and C++

  • Experience working with autonomous systems, especially for trucking use cases

  • Experience working in automotive or related industries

  • Experience with deploying software on either public clouds (e.g., AWS) or on-premise clusters

Compensation at Applied Intuition for eligible roles includes base salary, equity, and benefits. Base salary is a single component of the total compensation package, which may also include equity in the form of options and/or restricted stock units, comprehensive health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance coverage, 401k retirement benefits with employer match, learning and wellness stipends, and paid time off. Note that benefits are subject to change and may vary based on jurisdiction of employment.

Applied Intuition pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum intended target base salary for new hire salaries for the position. The actual base salary offered to a successful candidate will additionally be influenced by a variety of factors including experience, credentials & certifications, educational attainment, skill level requirements, interview performance, and the level and scope of the position.

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.

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