Data Engineer: AI Metrics & Geospatial Pipelines

PlusAI, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Catered free lunch, unlimited snacks

401(k) plan

Job summary

PlusAI, a Physical AI company pioneering AI-based virtual driver software for factory-built autonomous trucks, seeks engineers to own the data loop end to end. You will primarily use Python to build scalable data pipelines, geospatial analytics, evaluation frameworks, and LLM-powered automation, evaluating autonomy behavior and gating releases across fleet and simulations.

We welcome engineers from data engineering, analytics, geospatial, evaluation, or robotics backgrounds and value ownership,

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proficiency in Python with experience building scalable data processing systems or evaluation frameworks.
• Experience developing metrics and analyzing large-scale time-series, event, or geospatial data, including principled metric definitions, validation, and error analysis.
• Experience building LLM-powered or agentic workflows for data analysis, evaluation, or automation.
• Ability to solve open-ended technical challenges and communicate findings clearly to engineering and program stakeholders.
• Self-driven with a strong sense of ownership: a quick learner who is eager to take responsibility and drive projects forward end to end.

Responsibilities

• Define and compute driving performance metrics — covering safety, comfort, progress, interventions, and compliance — and build scalable pipelines that evaluate them across fleet and simulation data.
• Analyze road-test and simulation data to identify trends, regressions, and anomalies in autonomy behavior and turn findings into actionable insights for engineering teams.
• Build geospatial analytics over fleet driving data including map-matched metrics and route performance.
• Create data foundations and tooling for release management, including comparisons and gating criteria.
• Develop AI agentic workflows to triage detected issues at scale and propose fixes with evidence for engineering review.
• Ensure work aligns with the company's Quality Management System (QMS) requirements.

Skills

Python

Data processing

Geospatial analytics

LLM workflows

Time-series analysis

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS or related field

Tools

Apache Spark

Airflow

Job description

PlusAI, a Physical AI company pioneering AI-based virtual driver software for factory-built autonomous trucks, seeks engineers to own the data loop end to end. You will primarily use Python to build scalable data pipelines, geospatial analytics, evaluation frameworks, and LLM-powered automation, evaluating autonomy behavior and gating releases across fleet and simulations.

We welcome engineers from data engineering, analytics, geospatial, evaluation, or robotics backgrounds and value ownership,