Drimva

PlusAI

Software Engineer, Runtime

$150K–$180K

Santa Clara, CA · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Mar 13, 2025

Experience
Minimum 2+ years of professional experience.
Education
MS or PhD in Computer Science or related field.

About the job

Develop and optimize redundant on-vehicle software platforms and runtime capabilities for autonomous trucks.

What you'll do

  • Integrate and improve autonomous software components and partner middleware for performance and robustness.
  • Design fault detection, fault handling, and validation strategies, including on-vehicle, SIL, and HiL testing.
  • Contribute to driverless-operation features and support quality management and process improvement.

What they ask for

  • At least 2 years of professional experience.
  • MS or PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
  • Strong C++ and Python programming skills and hands-on experience with high-performance IPC or middleware.
  • Familiarity with computer vision and deep learning, performance troubleshooting, parallel programming models, and Linux system tuning.

Nice to have

  • Experience with CV pipelines and edge-platform model inference; ROS2 and DDS.
  • Experience with automotive HPC SoCs (Nvidia preferred) or QNX.

Pay

USD 150,000–180,000 per-year-salary (base salary)

Tools

C++, Python, CUDA, OpenCL, OpenVX, Halide, ROS2, DDS

AI focus

Works on autonomous-truck software, including integration and optimization of autonomous components and computer vision or deep-learning model capabilities.

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