Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer for High-Throughput AI

Socket.dev; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Catered lunch

Unlimited snacks and beverages

401(k) plan

Job summary

PlusAI, a Physical AI company pioneering AI-based virtual driver software, is seeking Software Engineers to own critical parts of data reliability from vehicle sensors to large-scale offline infrastructure. You will primarily work with modern C++ and Python, tackling systems challenges on resource-constrained hardware and vast data environments.

Open to Software Engineer or Senior Software Engineer levels; strong fundamentals and the ability to learn are valued.

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Programming experience in modern C++ and Python for services, libraries, and tooling.
• Linux systems knowledge including concurrency, memory and resource management, filesystem I/O, networking, debugging and performance profiling.
• Self-driven with a strong sense of ownership and ability to drive projects end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve high-throughput C++ systems recording vehicle sensor and runtime data under resource constraints.
• Build reliable Python data-plane services for data transfer, ingestion, validation, and metadata extraction.
• Evolve vehicle-data formats and APIs in C++ and Python, including serialization, compression and schema evolution.
• Improve columnar representations and APIs for fleet-scale mining, replay, and analytics.
• Ensure work complies with the company’s QMS and contribute to continuous improvement efforts.

Skills

C++ programming

Python

Linux systems

Ownership

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS or related field

Tools

protobuf

gRPC

ROS

Parquet/Delta Lake/Apache Iceberg

Job description

PlusAI, a Physical AI company pioneering AI-based virtual driver software, is seeking Software Engineers to own critical parts of data reliability from vehicle sensors to large-scale offline infrastructure. You will primarily work with modern C++ and Python, tackling systems challenges on resource-constrained hardware and vast data environments.

Open to Software Engineer or Senior Software Engineer levels; strong fundamentals and the ability to learn are valued.