Senior ML Runtime Engineer — Motion Planning for Autonomy

PlusAI; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Catered free lunch

Unlimited snacks

401(k) plan

Job summary

PlusAI in Silicon Valley is seeking a senior software engineer to design, implement, and optimize the production runtime pipeline for ML-based autonomous vehicle planning. You will integrate ML models into a scalable, safety-critical stack and develop high-performance C++ components for feature extraction, inference, and runtime orchestration.

You will debug complex edge cases, improve debugging and observability tooling, collaborate with ML and systems teams, and ensure adherence to QMS and

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 4+ years of experience developing high-performance production software.
• Strong C++ programming skills for large-scale systems.
• Experience with real-time, low-latency software.
• Experience deploying ML inference in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize the production runtime pipeline for ML-based autonomous vehicle planning.
• Integrate ML models into a scalable, safety-critical planning software stack.
• Optimize end-to-end inference performance, including memory and multithreading.
• Develop high-performance C++ components for feature extraction, inference, and runtime orchestration.
• Design validation, guardrails, and fallback mechanisms for feasible trajectories.
• Debug edge cases across the planning pipeline using logs, profiling, and offline replay.
• Build tooling to improve debugging, observability, performance analysis, testing, and runtime monitoring.
• Collaborate with ML engineers to deploy models while maintaining reliability and performance.

Skills

C++ development

Real-time systems

ML inference in prod

TensorRT CUDA

ONNX Runtime

Software architecture

Debugging skills

Multithreading

Profiling CPU/GPU

Mentoring engineers

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS/Robotics/EE

Tools

TensorRT

CUDA

ONNX Runtime

Job description

PlusAI in Silicon Valley is seeking a senior software engineer to design, implement, and optimize the production runtime pipeline for ML-based autonomous vehicle planning. You will integrate ML models into a scalable, safety-critical stack and develop high-performance C++ components for feature extraction, inference, and runtime orchestration.

You will debug complex edge cases, improve debugging and observability tooling, collaborate with ML and systems teams, and ensure adherence to QMS and