Software Engineer — Autonomous Vehicle Data Systems

Plus 2; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Catered lunch and beverages

Unlimited snacks and beverages

401(k) plan

Job summary

PlusAI, a Silicon Valley-based Physical AI company, is hiring a Software Engineer or Senior Software Engineer to own critical parts of vehicle data recording, transfer, validation, and analysis. You will primarily work in modern C++ and Python, solving systems challenges across resource-constrained on-board computers and large-scale offline infrastructure.

We value strong fundamentals, ownership, and the ability to learn, with opportunities to contribute to high-throughput data pipelines, format

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Programming experience in modern C++ and working proficiency in Python for services, libraries, and tooling
• Linux systems knowledge, including concurrency, memory and resource management, filesystem and storage I/O, networking, debugging, and performance profiling
• Self-driven with a strong sense of ownership: a quick learner who is eager to take responsibility and drive projects forward end to end
• Familiarity with protobuf, gRPC, compression or media codecs, and native C++/Python bindings
• Experience with autonomous vehicles, robotics, ROS or ROS 2, robotics log formats such as rosbag or MCAP, or other high-throughput recording and telemetry systems
• Experience with columnar data formats or lakehouse table technologies such as Parquet, Delta Lake, or Apache Iceberg

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve high-throughput C++ systems that continuously record vehicle sensor and runtime data, selectively capture events, and collect system telemetry while operating safely under CPU, memory, disk, and network constraints
• Build reliable Python data-plane services and libraries for vehicle-data transfer, ingestion, validation, domain-specific format conversion, metadata extraction, cataloging, and storage lifecycle management
• Evolve versioned vehicle-data formats and their C++ and Python APIs, including indexing, serialization, compression, schema evolution, and backward compatibility
• Evolve columnar and lakehouse representations and access APIs for vehicle data, improving scalability and performance for fleet-scale mining, replay, and analytics
• Ensure that your work is performed in accordance with the company’s Quality Management System (QMS) requirements and contribute to continuous improvement efforts

Skills

Modern C++

Python

Linux systems

Ownership mindset

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS

Tools

protobuf

gRPC

Parquet

Delta Lake

Apache Iceberg

ROS/ROS 2

Job description

PlusAI, a Silicon Valley-based Physical AI company, is hiring a Software Engineer or Senior Software Engineer to own critical parts of vehicle data recording, transfer, validation, and analysis. You will primarily work in modern C++ and Python, solving systems challenges across resource-constrained on-board computers and large-scale offline infrastructure.

We value strong fundamentals, ownership, and the ability to learn, with opportunities to contribute to high-throughput data pipelines, format