Product Designer, Defense is open at Applied in Sunnyvale. The posting gives a salary of $170K - $200K. Posted on Aug 19, 2026, and still on Applied’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Physical AI is the next wave beyond LLMs, and the stakes are highest in defense: fragmented systems cause missed threats, and clunky interfaces cost operators time they can't get back. Applied is one of a small number of companies with the product surface, field access, and engineering depth to fix this. The Defense team has proven its autonomy, simulation, and onboard systems in real deployments. Now we're turning…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Applied’s careers page.
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