2 months ago
Santa Clara, CA, USASenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$130k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement decision-making and trajectory-generation algorithms that provide safety, comfort, and reliability across varied driving conditions.
- Bring robotics and machine learning techniques from research into a production-grade, safety-critical autonomous-vehicle system.
- Reason about socially nuanced driving situations, including merges, junctions, and interactions with other road users under uncertainty.
- Use C++ numerical optimization frameworks and tools such as CasADi, Acados, Git, and ROS to integrate planning algorithms into the production stack.
- Collaborate with ML and prediction teams to integrate probabilistic and multi-future scenario representations into planning decisions.
- Perform system-level diagnostics and tuning using visualization tools such as Webviz.
- Collaborate cross-functionally and produce system designs for high-level review and approval.
Requirements
- MS with 1–2 years of relevant experience or a PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field.
- Strong production software development skills in C++; Python experience is a plus.
- Expertise in path planning, motion planning, trajectory generation, behavior planning, or optimal control.
- Strong foundations in geometry, analysis, probability, kinematics, and dynamics.
- Experience designing, implementing, and refining planning algorithms on a real-world robotic or vehicle platform.
- Strong oral and written communication skills and the ability to collaborate across teams.
- Preferred: PhD with 1–2 years or MS with 3–4 years of relevant experience.
- Preferred: exposure to deep learning, imitation learning, transformer-based models, or diffusion-based models applied to decision-making or scenario generation.
- Preferred: familiarity with autonomy safety frameworks such as RSS and collision avoidance/MRM logic.
- Preferred: prior experience with safety-critical systems.
Benefits
- Highly competitive salary and benefits package, including a 401(k) plan.
- Catered free lunch, unlimited snacks, and beverages.
- Opportunities for personal and professional development in a future-oriented autonomy field.
About PlusAI
PlusAI develops AI-based virtual driver software that enables factory-built autonomous trucks for commercial freight operators. The company licenses its autonomy stack to truck OEMs and logistics partners; collaborators include TRATON’s Scania and MAN, Navistar’s International, Hyundai Motor Company, Iveco Group, Bosch, and DSV. Headquartered in Santa Clara with operations in the U.S. and Europe, PlusAI is privately held and in 2025 announced a planned public listing via a merger with Churchill Capital Corp IX.