Drimva

PlusAI

Senior Software Engineer, Mapping & Localization

$145K–$190K

Santa Clara, CA · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 24, 2022

About the job

Develops and deploys large-scale mapping and localization systems for self-driving vehicles, including map management, runtime queries, monitoring, and CI systems.

What you'll do

  • Develop and deploy offline map management and online map loading systems in Python and C++.
  • Build efficient runtime map-query interfaces for perception, prediction, and planning modules.
  • Improve mapping/localization monitoring, event mining, CI, and related data collection and analysis.

What they ask for

  • Strong proficiency in C++ and experience designing and implementing large real-time C++ systems and infrastructure.
  • Experience in offline large-scale map management and deployment.
  • Familiarity with maintaining and creating CI/CD pipelines.
  • Clear understanding of data structures and algorithms; strong written and verbal communication.

Nice to have

  • Experience with online multi-tile, large-scale real-time map loading.
  • Experience with localization algorithms, deep-learning perception systems, or related implementation and testing.

Pay

USD 145,000–190,000 (per-year-salary) — base salary

Tools

Python, C++, CI/CD, Lidar/Visual SLAM, Kalman filtering, spatial transformer, self/cross attention

AI focus

Mapping and localization for autonomous vehicles, with preferred experience in localization algorithms and deep-learning perception systems.

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