PlusAI
Software Engineer (SE / Sr SE), Applied ML & Data Mining
$130K–$220K
Santa Clara, CA · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 31, 2026
- Education
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Develops methods and production tools to find, rank, search, review, and curate fleet data for autonomous-driving model training and evaluation.
What you'll do
- Develop and evaluate data-mining, retrieval, and ranking methods for fleet data.
- Build and operate distributed mining, inference, and indexing pipelines, plus semantic image, video, and scenario search.
- Ship end-to-end mining products, including APIs, services, search and review interfaces, deployment, and production reliability.
What they ask for
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Hands-on experience developing and evaluating machine-learning, data-mining, computer-vision, or information-retrieval methods using a framework such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
- Understanding of model uncertainty and evaluation, embeddings and similarity search, and how training-data composition affects model behavior.
- Self-driven, with ownership, learning agility, and ability to drive projects end to end.
Nice to have
- Production full-stack experience across backend services, REST APIs, relational data modeling and SQL, and JavaScript or TypeScript frontend development using React or a comparable framework.
- Experience improving models through data, or with embedding and multimodal models, vector databases, or GPU batch inference at scale.
Pay
USD 130,000–220,000 per-year-salary
Tools
PyTorch, TensorFlow, Python, TypeScript, React, SQL, Milvus, FAISS
AI focus
Applied machine learning and data mining to identify and rank valuable autonomous-driving fleet data for model training and evaluation, including semantic retrieval and large-scale inference.
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