PlusAI

Software Engineer (SE / Sr SE), Data Infrastructure

PlusAI
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3 months ago
Santa Clara, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
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Base Salary

$120k - $200k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and evolve C++ systems for high-throughput vehicle sensor, runtime-data, event, and telemetry recording.
  • Build Python data-plane services and libraries for transfer, ingestion, validation, format conversion, metadata extraction, cataloging, and storage lifecycle management.
  • Evolve versioned vehicle-data formats and C++/Python APIs, including indexing, serialization, compression, schema evolution, and backward compatibility.
  • Improve columnar and lakehouse data representations and access APIs for fleet-scale mining, replay, and analytics.
  • Follow the company’s Quality Management System requirements and contribute to continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience with modern C++ and working proficiency in Python for services, libraries, and tooling.
  • Linux systems knowledge covering concurrency, memory and resource management, filesystem and storage I/O, networking, debugging, and performance profiling.
  • Strong ownership, self-direction, learning ability, and willingness to drive projects end to end.
  • Preferred experience with protobuf, gRPC, compression or media codecs, and native C++/Python bindings.
  • Preferred experience with autonomous vehicles, robotics, ROS, ROS 2, rosbag, MCAP, or other high-throughput recording and telemetry systems.
  • Preferred experience with columnar data formats or lakehouse technologies such as Parquet, Delta Lake, or Apache Iceberg.

Benefits

  • Professional development opportunities in an innovative, future-oriented field.
  • Catered free lunch, unlimited snacks and beverages.
  • Competitive salary and benefits package including a 401(k) plan.

Tech Stack

Categories

BackendData Engineering
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About PlusAI

201-500 employees

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.

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