About this role
Job title: Build & Release Engineer - New Grad (December 2026)
Location
Sunnyvale
Employment Type Full time
Location Type On-site
Department 2027 New Grad
Compensation
- $90K – $115K • Offers Equity
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 Team
The Release Management team owns the infrastructure and process that gets validated software out the door — release cuts, version uprevs, build pipelines, and artifact management — across our automotive platform. We collaborate with Program Validation for release gate sign-off and work alongside the Embedded, UX/HMI, and OTA domain teams to maintain release momentum and prevent last-minute emergencies.
About the Role
We are looking for a Build & Release Engineer to own release cuts from our Git repositories, manage uprevs (dependency/firmware version updates), build and maintain our CI/CD pipelines, and administer build artifact management. You will also own our internal Release Management portal — the system where all build artifacts and binaries are tracked, managed, and released — as its primary engineer. This hands-on software engineering position demands robust coding proficiency alongside deep CI/CD expertise, as you will actively build and maintain a live application rather than just configuring pipelines.
At Applied Intuition, you will:
- Release Engineering & Orchestration
- Execute release cuts from Git repositories across multiple product lines and branches.
- Manage version uprevs end to end, coordinating dependency and firmware bumps with upstream teams.
- Define and own release branching, tagging, and versioning strategies.
- Investigate and resolve complex build failures, coordi