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About
Peter Ludwig co-founded Applied Intuition with Qasar Younis to build the simulation, validation, and autonomy infrastructure powering modern self-driving and defense systems. Before Applied, he spent five years at Google as a software engineer on Google Maps and on Android Automotive, where he saw firsthand that automakers lacked the developer tooling Silicon Valley took for granted. He leads engineering across the company's autonomy products, which now serve more than half of the world's top automakers as well as a growing roster of U.S. defense customers. Ludwig holds undergraduate and graduate computer science degrees from the University of Michigan.
Previous roles
- Software Engineer, Google (Maps, Android Automotive)
Notable work
- Co-founded Applied Intuition with Qasar Younis in 2017 and serves as CTO, leading development of software for intelligent machines.
- As CTO, helped scale Applied Intuition to serving 18 of the top 20 global automakers and U.S. and allied military customers across simulation, operating-system, and autonomy products.
- Testified before the U.S. House Armed Services Committee in 2024 on industry perspectives concerning defense technology acquisition and fielding.
- Before co-founding Applied Intuition, spent five years as a Google engineer leading work on Google Maps and Android Automotive.
- Helped lead Applied Intuition into its post-Series-F product expansion after the company raised $600 million at a $15 billion valuation in 2025, with a focus on software-defined and intelligent systems across automotive, defense, and industrial domains.
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