Build & Release Engineer - New Grad (2027)

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 .

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

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, coordinating fixes across development teams.

CI/CD Infrastructure

Design, build, and maintain scalable software release CI/CD pipelines for build, test orchestration, and deployment.

Automate build infrastructure to reduce manual effort and enforce pipeline quality gates.

Troubleshoot pipeline failures to ensure high availability and reliability for development teams.

Artifact Lifecycle Management

Own the artifact lifecycle, including versioning, signing, storage, and cross-environment promotion.

Maintain strict artifact provenance and traceability from commit to release.

Administer and optimize artifact repositories (e.g., Artifactory).

Internal Tooling & Portals

Develop and maintain the internal Release Management portal — the system of record for build artifacts, binaries, and release status.

Ship new features for the portal as its primary engineer, including UI, backend services, and external integrations.

Integrate the portal with CI/CD systems, artifact repositories, and downstream release workflows.

Cross-Functional Alignment

Partner with the Program Validation team and TPMs on release gate criteria and final sign-off.

Coordinate with domain teams (Embedded, UX/HMI, OTA etc) on release timing, risks, and blockers.

Communicate release status and critical path risks to stakeholders.

We're looking for someone who has:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field and graduating by December 2026 or Summer 2027.

3+ years of professional software development experience, with strong coding ability in at least one modern language (e.g., Python, Go, Java, or JavaScript/TypeScript)

Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Buildkite)

Strong Git experience, including branching, tagging, and release workflows

Experience with artifact management systems (e.g., JFrog Artifactory, Nexus, or equivalent)

Experience designing, building, or maintaining internal tools or portals

Strong troubleshooting skills across build, dependency, and release issues

Requirements

• Front-end development experience (e.g., React, TypeScript) for extending internal tooling UIs
• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Experience with embedded/automotive release processes (multi-ECU uprevs, ASPICE-aligned release workflows)
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools (Grafana, Kibana, Splunk)
• Experience with Jira, Polarion, or similar issue tracking tools
• 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.
• 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!