Apex.AI is seeking an experienced Senior Application Engineer with 5+ years of relevant experience working directly with product teams and global customers to deploy safety-certified software for SDVs (software-defined vehicles), ADAS / autonomous systems, and smart machine applications. As a Senior Application Engineer at Apex.AI you will collaborate across South Korea, Japan, Europe, and the US and help customers bring production programs to market using Apex.OS (Apex.Grace and Apex.Ida).
Joining Apex.AI means working from South Korea with a global team of experienced and talented engineers on real production programs with companies such as HL Klemove, MOIA, and Brunswick building the safety-certified software foundation behind next-generation ADAS, autonomous mobility, and software-defined vehicles.
You will develop, deploy, and support Apex.OS while partnering closely with customer engineering teams and our internal development team to create a high-quality product. This role includes direct customer interaction. You will participate and drive technical workshops, integration support, issue debugging, and occasional on-site collaboration to help customers deploy Apex.OS-based solutions. In addition, you will have opportunities to contribute features to our core products and gain deep technical knowledge of Apex.OS. If you love to code in C++ and enjoy working with others, this is the perfect role for you.
This role is a hybrid role, located in our South Korean office in Pangyo, with an expectation of regular days in the office. Authorization to work in South Korea is required.
What you'll do
- Apply your problem-solving and C++ development skills to develop functions, applications, and solutions for software-defined vehicles, ADAS / autonomous systems, and smart machine applications
- Be comfortable working in high-pressure OEM and Tier 1 customer programs
- Work directly with automotive OEMs, Tier 1s, and partners to integrate and deploy Apex.OS-based solutions
- Provide hands-on technical support through customer meetings, technical workshops, debugging, and occasional on-site integration work
- Roll out Apex.AI software to customers and support them through integration, validation, and deployment milestones
What you have
- B.S. or higher degree in a technical field, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of C++ software development experience
- Business-level Korean and professional English, with the ability to communicate effectively with customer engineering teams
- Strong presentation and communication skills
- Excellent troubleshooting skills
- Experience with Git, GitLab or similar tools
- Software and embedded system experience is a must
- Self-motivated, comfortable operating without direct supervision
- Experience supporting integration, deployment, or debugging in customer-facing or cross-functional engineering environments
Great to have
- Experience in relevant domains, such as automotive, ADAS, autonomous systems, robotics, aerospace, or industrial systems
- Understanding of OS (Operating System) and network concepts (UDP, Multicast, etc.), messaging systems (DDS, ROS, etc.), real-time systems, or automotive software architectures (such as AUTOSAR)
- Previous experience in technical professional services, field application engineering, or sales engineering
- Customer training experience
- Experience with Bazel and/or CMake
- Experience collaborating with customers on-site
About Apex.AI
Apex.AI is an international software company specializing in the development of safety-certified, developer-friendly, and scalable software for mobility systems, aiming to accelerate the transition to software-defined vehicles and mobility. Founded in 2017 by Jan Becker and Dejan Pangercic, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in Munich, Stuttgart, Gothenburg, Tokyo, and Pangyo. To date, Apex.AI has raised over $75 million USD from world-class venture, financial and strategic investors including AGCO, Airbus Ventures, Canaan, Continental AG, Daimler Truck, HELLA Ventures, Jaguar Land Rover’s InMotion Ventures, LG Electronics, Lightspeed, Orillion, Toyota Ventures, Volvo Group Venture Capital and ZF.
The company’s flagship product, Apex.OS, consists of two core components: Apex.Grace and Apex.Ida.
Apex.Grace is an application runtime framework in the form of a software development kit (SDK). It provides a robust framework for developing real-time, reliable, and safe applications. Core APIs are based on ROS 2 APIs with numerous extensions enabling real-time execution, reliable performance, deployment into large fleets, system state management, safety, security, and much more. It is safety-certified to ISO 26262 ASIL D.
Apex.Ida is a communication middleware delivering optimal high-performance data transport across use cases. These use cases range from fully autonomous vehicles with dozens of high-resolution cameras to small signals with ultra-high frequencies in safety-critical domains. Its core is based on a shared memory data transport with connectors into DDS, SOME/IP, MQTT, CAN, and many more protocols, all abstracted into a single application facing API.
Additionally, Apex.AI offers:
Apex.Alan provides customers with a highly optimized and efficient software integration, development environment, build, test, and delivery process.
Apex.OS for V&V enables record and playback of very large and diverse data streams, both time- and data-deterministically, which is crucial for replay, analysis, and performance evaluation of complex autonomous systems.
Apex.AI’s software solutions are utilized across a diverse range of industries, including automotive, agriculture, medical, and defense sectors. The products enable developers to efficiently create and deploy safe, reliable, and high-performance applications, thereby accelerating the adoption of software-defined mobility systems. Through its innovative software solutions and strategic partnerships, Apex.AI is at the forefront of transforming the mobility industry, facilitating the development of next-generation vehicles and systems.
Skills Required
- B.S. or higher degree in a technical field, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of C++ software development experience
- Business-level Korean and professional English
- Experience with Git, GitLab or similar tools
- Software and embedded system experience
- Experience supporting integration, deployment, or debugging in customer-facing environments
What We Do
Our software products, Apex.Grace & Apex.Ida, are based on open-source software, such as ROS or Eclipse iceoryx. Apex.Grace, named after the legendary Grace Hopper, is a software development framework for mobility applications that enables efficient development of applications. Apex.Ida, named after pioneer Ida Rhodes, delivers optimal vehicle communication and high performance data transportation. To learn more about our amazing products, please visit our website, www.apex.ai.
Why Work With Us
Our products and our people. Our products, Apex.Grace & Apex.Ida, are exceptionally engineered and solve a unique problem that has not been addressed yet. Because of this, you will be abe to solve unique & complex problems and grow within your role in a way that you wouldn’t at other companies.
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