Solutions Architect - Maritime Defense
AI summary of the role
This Solutions Architect role bridges customer missions and engineering for Applied Intuition's defense business, focusing on DoD pursuits.
What you’ll do
- Design bespoke solution architectures, integration concepts, and CONOPS for specific DoD pursuits.
- Translate complex software capabilities into mission-relevant narratives for government engineers and technical evaluation teams.
- Act as the technical engine for the BD team, providing substance for white papers, capability briefs, and RFI/RFP technical volumes.
- Lead technical customer engagements including deep-dive architecture reviews and product demonstrations.
What you’ll bring
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related technical field.
- 5+ years of experience in technical pre-sales, systems engineering, or software architecture.
- Deep understanding of DoD technical environments including classification levels (NIPR/SIPR/JWICS) and accreditation processes (ATO/IATT).
- Active Secret or Top Secret security clearance.
Technologies
DoD · NIPR · SIPR · JWICS · ATO · IATT · AI/ML · edge computing · Kubernetes · Docker
About Applied Intuition
Builds the toolchain, vehicle OS and autonomy stacks that automakers, defense and off-road OEMs use to ship AI-driven vehicles.
Series F
Source and classification
Technical pre-sales · Evidence for this classification:
our expectation is that 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. About the role The Solutions Architect serves as the technical bridge between our customers and engineering teams. Sitting within the Growth team and reporting to a Chief Engineer, you will be the primary technical voice for our business development operations, and continue to guide systems design and implementation across build and delivery. Your mission: make the team technically impressive, ensuring every customer conversation, white paper, and proposal is grounded in a credible,
More from the job description
About Applied Intuition 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 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. About the role The Solutions Architect serves as the technical bridge between our customers [... source excerpt omitted ...] iness development operations, and continue to guide systems design and implementation across build and delivery. Your mission: make the team technically impressive, ensuring every customer conversation, white paper, and proposal is grounded in a credible, differentiated technical narrative that maps Applied Intuition’s capabilities to the customer’s mission. At Applied Intuition, you will: Design bespoke solution architectures, integration concepts, and Concept of Operations (CONOPS) for specific DoD pursuits. Translate complex software capabilities into mission-relevant narratives for government engineers, SETAs, and technical evaluation teams. Act as the technical engine fo [... source excerpt omitted ...] o ensure capture strategies align with our roadmap. Conduct competitive technical analysis to identify architectural strengths and weaknesses versus industry incumbents. Convert customer requirements and operational constraints into actionable technical feedback for our product development cycles. We’re looking for someone who has: BS or MS in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field. 5+ years of experience in technical pre-sales, systems engineering, or software architecture. Deep understanding of DoD technical environments, including classification levels (NIPR/SIPR/JWICS) and accreditation processes (ATO/IATT). Technical breadth across softwar
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