Drimva

PlusAI

Software Engineer (SE / Sr SE), Data Infrastructure

$120K–$200K

Santa Clara, CA · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 31, 2026

Education
BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

About the job

Build and maintain systems for recording, transferring, validating, cataloging, and accessing autonomous-vehicle data for replay, analytics, and machine learning.

What you'll do

  • Develop high-throughput C++ vehicle-data recording systems that operate within hardware resource constraints.
  • Build Python services and libraries for data transfer, ingestion, validation, conversion, cataloging, and storage lifecycle management.
  • Improve vehicle-data formats and scalable data access for fleet-scale mining, replay, and analytics.

What they ask for

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Programming experience in modern C++ and working proficiency in Python.
  • Linux systems knowledge, including concurrency, resource management, storage I/O, networking, debugging, and performance profiling.
  • Strong ownership, ability to learn quickly, and willingness to drive projects end to end.

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with protobuf, gRPC, compression or media codecs, and native C++/Python bindings.
  • Experience with autonomous vehicles, robotics, ROS or ROS 2, robotics log formats, columnar data formats, or lakehouse table technologies.

Pay

USD 120,000–200,000 (per-year-salary) base salary

Tools

C++, Python, Linux, protobuf, gRPC, ROS, ROS 2, Parquet

AI focus

The data infrastructure supports replay, analytics, and machine learning for autonomous-driving systems; the role does not specify developing AI models.

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