Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Autonomous Vehicle AI

PlusAI, Inc.

Santa Clara (CA)

Hybrid

USD 180,000 - 250,000

Full time

14 days+
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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.

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