Founding Developer Tooling Engineer - Middle East

About the role

Applied Intuition, a Silicon Valley company building the digital infrastructure for physical AI, is hiring a Founding Developer Tooling Engineer for its Middle East office in Riyadh. The role works across engineering teams to remove friction from workflows, build new tools and speed up the software and automotive development and deployment lifecycle. The company is in-office, expecting full-time employees to work five days a week from the office, with flexibility for occasional remote work.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and improve the tools, libraries and frameworks used by the engineering team.
• Build and test scalable tools for deploying to automotive and cloud platforms.
• Optimize compile/build times using tools such as Bazel, CMake and Docker.
• Improve software deployment and data collection frameworks.
• Identify and solve bottlenecks in the software stack.

Required profile

• 2+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience designing, provisioning and maintaining public cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure or GCP) with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Self-starter with a can-do attitude, able to drive projects independently.

Required skills

• Strong expertise in Python.
• CI, build and deployment tools such as Bazel, Buildkite, Docker and Kubernetes, plus automation scripting.
• Linux.
• Nice to have: Go, C and C++, autonomous systems (especially trucking), automotive industry experience, and deploying software on public clouds or on-premise clusters.

What we offer

• Base salary, equity (options and/or RSUs) and benefits.
• Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, 401k with employer match, learning and wellness stipends and paid time off.