Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer, PlusAI
Applied Machine Learning & Data Mining
$130-220k
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
AI-first global autonomous trucking technology
Be an early applicant
AI-first global autonomous trucking technology
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$130-220k
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build driving intelligence to power a safer and greener world.
Role
Who you are
- 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 with a framework such as PyTorch or TensorFlow, including experimentation, error analysis, and principled metrics
- Foundations for data-centric machine learning: an understanding of model uncertainty and evaluation, embeddings and similarity search, and how training-data composition shapes model behavior
- Self-driven with a strong sense of ownership: a quick learner who is eager to take responsibility and drive projects forward end to end
Desirable
- Production full-stack experience spanning backend services and REST APIs, relational data modeling and SQL, and modern JavaScript or TypeScript frontend development using React or a comparable framework
- Experience improving models through data — training or fine-tuning, active learning and data flywheels, hard-example mining, uncertainty or disagreement signals, dataset curation — ideally in autonomous driving, robotics, or perception
- Experience with embedding and multimodal models (CLIP-style models, VLMs), vector databases (Milvus, FAISS, pgvector), or GPU batch inference at scale
What the job involves
- We are open to candidates at either the Software Engineer or Senior Software Engineer level. Level will be determined by experience, technical depth, scope of ownership, and demonstrated impact. You do not need experience with every technology in our stack; we value strong fundamentals, ownership, and the ability to learn
- Develop and evaluate mining, retrieval, and ranking methods using signals such as model confidence, disagreement, embeddings, anomalies, temporal behavior, and learned representations
- Build and evolve semantic image/video/scenario search, including text-to-image/video and image-to-image or video-to-video retrieval, vector search, metadata and temporal or spatial filters, task-specific ranking, and search quality, freshness, latency, and reliability
- Build and operate distributed mining, inference, and indexing pipelines over fleet-scale imagery, video, time-series, and autonomy-system data, including GPU batch inference, embedding generation, reproducible candidate datasets, and reliable index refreshes
- Design and ship mining products end to end: Python APIs and services, relational data models, asynchronous jobs, modern TypeScript/React search and review experiences, deployment, access control, testing, observability, and production reliability
- Ensure that your work is performed in accordance with the company’s Quality Management System (QMS) requirements and contribute to continuous improvement efforts
Our take
With self-driving vehicles becoming more common, the tuck shipping industry stands to benefit from autonomous driving technology, particularly given the current shortage of drivers in the US.
PlusAI provides self-driving technology for trucks to make fleets safer, more fuel-efficient, and sustainable. It uses machine learning to analyze routes and scenarios, providing real-time data to trucks equipped with the PlusDrive system. Unlike competitors focusing on urban transportation, PlusAI is tackling long-distance logistics, though regulatory challenges in the US remain a concern.
Currently, Plus offers a system that enhances driver safety and efficiency, while continuing to develop fully autonomous solutions. Following a successful pilot with IVECO, PlusAI is testing its automated trucks on German roads and plans to expand into other European markets, like Spain, very soon.
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Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2021
$220m
LATE VC
Feb 2021
$200m
LATE VC
Total funding: $821.7m
Company benefits
- Unlimited PTO: Unlimited paid time off on top of company holidays to recharge and enjoy as needed
- Flexible working: Flexibile work arrangements and technology to help manage life's demands at the office and remote
- Health benefits: Tiered options in medical, dental, and vision insurance to fit your unique needs
- Future building: Equity, 401k and FSA options for all eligible employees to help build for your future
- Professional development: Company-sponsored professional development opportunities such as conferences, training, and workshops
- Catered lunches: Daily catered lunches at both of our Santa Clara and Fremont offices
Company HQ
Santa Clara, CA
Leadership
David Liu
(Co-Founder & CEO)They hold a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and began their career as an Engineer at Silicon Graphics. Later, they worked as a Consultant for McKinsey & Co. and went on to serve as the Founder and CTO of both InformLink and RMG Networks. They also have experience as the Founder and CEO of RedAtoms.
Shawn Kerrigan
(Co-Founder & COO)They hold a Master's and PhD in Engineering from Stanford. They served as an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Co. and later became a Senior Investment Associate at Bridgewater Associates. They also co-founded Locus Energy where they served as the CTO for 8 years.
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