Senior/Staff Research Engineer — Vision-Language-Action Models (Autonomous Driving)
Plus 2
·Sep 15, 2026
- Salary
- $170k – $260k/yr
- Location
- Santa Clara, CA
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Research and Development
- Seniority
- Senior
- Education
- PhD
- Source
- Lever
Description
PlusAI is a Physical AI company pioneering AI-based virtual driver software for factory-built autonomous trucks. Headquartered in Silicon Valley with operations in the United States and Europe, Plus was named by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. Partners including TRATON GROUP’s Scania, MAN, and International brands, Hyundai Motor Company, Iveco Group, Bosch, and DSV are working with Plus to accelerate the deployment of next-generation autonomous trucks. If you’re ready to make a huge impact and drive the future of autonomy, Plus is looking for talented individuals to join its fast-growing teams.
You will join our core AI team at the frontier of autonomous decision-making, building the Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models that form SuperDrive's reasoning layer. You'll train VLA models that generate high-level driving decisions and trajectory guidance for on-board strategic decision-making, and design the knowledge distillation and compression techniques that transition large models onto on-board compute.
Skills
Deep LearningTensorFlowPyTorch