PlusAI
Data Engineer (SE / Sr SE)
$130K–$200K
Santa Clara, CA · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 10, 2026
- Education
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Own the end-to-end evaluation loop for autonomous truck driving, from performance metrics and fleet-scale data pipelines to release decisions and AI-assisted issue triage.
What you'll do
- Define driving performance metrics and build scalable pipelines to evaluate fleet and simulation data.
- Analyze autonomy behavior and geospatial performance; report trends, regressions, and anomalies to engineering teams.
- Build release-management tooling and AI agentic workflows to triage issues, identify root causes, route work, and propose fixes.
What they ask for
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Proficiency in Python and experience building scalable data processing systems or evaluation frameworks.
- Experience developing metrics and analyzing large-scale time-series, event, or geospatial data, including metric validation and error analysis.
- Experience building LLM-powered or agentic workflows for data analysis, evaluation, or automation.
Nice to have
- Experience with distributed data processing such as Apache Spark and workflow orchestration such as Airflow or Argo Workflows.
- Experience in geospatial tooling, release engineering, autonomous vehicles, robotics, safety-critical systems, or analytics interfaces.
Pay
USD 130,000–200,000 (per-year-salary) — base salary
Tools
Python, Apache Spark, Airflow, Argo Workflows, LangChain, LangGraph, PostGIS, GeoPandas
AI focus
Build LLM-powered agentic workflows to triage detected issues, cluster and deduplicate failures, attribute root causes, route issues to owners, and propose fixes with supporting evidence.
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