Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Autonomous Vehicle AI

PlusAI, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free lunch

401(k) plan

Job summary

PlusAI, Inc. pioneers AI-based virtual driver software for factory-built autonomous trucks. We seek a senior software engineer to advance our redundant on-vehicle platform and middleware, collaborating with autonomy and runtime teams to sharpen performance and robustness.

You will drive fault detection/handling, validation strategies, and hardware-software integration on Linux with CUDA/OpenCL environments, in a fast-growing Silicon Valley setting.

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Computer Science or related field.
• Strong programming skills in C++ and Python.
• Hands-on experience with high-performance IPC/middleware stacks.
• Basic understanding of computer vision and deep learning models.
• Familiarity with CUDA/OpenCL/OpenVX/Halide or SIMD models.
• Ability to work with large codebases in a fast-growing environment.

Responsibilities

• Work with autonomy and runtime teams to improve the redundant on-vehicle platform and autonomous software stack.
• Develop perspectives on opportunities and gaps in the software and hardware strategy with a long-term horizon.
• Integrate and optimize performance and robustness of autonomous software components into the platform.
• Design fault detection and fault handling strategies for the on-vehicle platform.
• Design and develop validation strategies including on-vehicle testing and HiL simulations.
• Ensure compliance with QMS and contribute to process improvements.

Skills

C++

Python

Linux

CUDA/OpenCL

Performance profiling

CV/DL basics

ROS2/DDS

Education

MS/PhD in Computer Science

Tools

ROS2

DDS

NVIDIA HPC SoCs

QNX

Job description

PlusAI, Inc. pioneers AI-based virtual driver software for factory-built autonomous trucks. We seek a senior software engineer to advance our redundant on-vehicle platform and middleware, collaborating with autonomy and runtime teams to sharpen performance and robustness.

You will drive fault detection/handling, validation strategies, and hardware-software integration on Linux with CUDA/OpenCL environments, in a fast-growing Silicon Valley setting.