Senior Software Engineer, Nuro
Introspection & Visualization
$167.2-250.8k
Eligible for an annual performance bonus & equity
Office located in Mountain View, CA
Autonomous delivery vehicle manufacturer
Be an early applicant
Autonomous delivery vehicle manufacturer
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$167.2-250.8k
Eligible for an annual performance bonus & equity
Office located in Mountain View, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To better everyday life through robotics.
Role
Who you are
- Strong critical thinking, problem solving, and programming skills using C++ and Python, and proficiency with Git for collaboration and code versioning
- Ability to work closely across a variety of end-users to define product requirements, iterate, deliver, and maintain effective internal products
- Knowledge of common UI frameworks (e.g. Qt, React, Vue.js) for building interactive interfaces and a familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases for logging and querying data
- Ability to ramp up quickly to the domain of autonomous driving and machine learning, including the capacity and willingness to learn about fundamental ML and robotics concepts to benefit the quality of the tools you build
- Good team player, and an enthusiasm to build systems to support autonomy development
Desirable
- Familiarity with applying ML visualization and introspection techniques (e.g. layer introspection, attention heatmaps, dimensionality reduction (tSNE, UMAP), or others)
- Familiarity with cloud services like AWS, GCP, or Azure for scalable infrastructure
- Exposure to machine learning using deep neural networks and a familiarity with core ML concepts like attention, transformers, objective functions, feature engineering, etc. and proficiency in a common ML framework (Pytorch, Tensorflow, Keras)
- You have subject matter expertise and research in one or more of the following areas: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Robotics, and have some familiarity with the state of the art in ML for autonomous driving and data utilization
What the job involves
- The mandate of the Behavior team is to use advanced robotic and machine learning techniques to accelerate autonomy progress
- In this role, you will be working as a member of the Behavior team with the goal of building visualizations, tooling, and methodologies to better understand, explain, and improve our autonomy and machine learning models
- This includes building on top of existing frameworks and developing custom visualization for model introspection and autonomy understanding
- In this role you will work across a variety of models within the Behavior team including prediction, planning, and foundational world models, as well as LLMs and VLMs
- If you love solving challenging problems, developing intuitive and extensible tooling and interfaces, and are excited about solving the challenges of autonomous driving, come join us!
- Work as a part of an autonomy team and with ML infrastructure engineers to build internal products to be used by autonomy researchers
- Develop visualization, introspection, and evaluation tooling to test and improve the quality of our ML models
- Collaborate with engineers to determine tooling requirements and deliver intuitive and extensible products that can match the needs of our evolving autonomy solution
- Work with custom and off the shelf visualization frameworks and models, and witness their real-world impact on the road
Our take
Nuro offers custom-built autonomous vehicles for the delivery of physical goods, rather than people. Its vehicles have a distinctive, futuristic, design that has not only made the vehicles noticeable from a marketing point of view, but, has also made its vehicles stand out to other road users, improving safety.
Nuro is an exciting addition to the autonomous vehicle landscape. Without a passenger inside the vehicle, it has been able to sidestep some of the safety issues that have plagued other autonomous vehicle brands. Additionally, the company has landed several high-profile partners, including Uber, Walmart, Chipotle, and Kroger.
With home deliveries at an all-time high, many companies are looking for ways to get goods to customers’ homes as fast as possible. Low-cost, efficient services such as Nuro's offering are becoming increasingly attractive. The company is turning its focus to commercializing and scaling the production of its third-generation vehicle at a new facility in Southern Nevada as it hopes to expand its services across the US.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2021
$600m
SERIES D
Nov 2020
$500m
SERIES C
Total funding: $2.1bn
Company benefits
- Free Caltrain pass and commuter benefits
- Company stock options
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Earn it - We seek and expect excellence and are not afraid of hard work
- 1% better everyday - We continuously focus on improving both as individuals and as a company
- Find a way - We embrace uncertainty and thrive on solving the hardest problems
- Act now - We trust our team's judgment—everyone is a problem solver
- One team - Nuro only succeeds if we are all working toward a common goal
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
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Leadership
Jiajun Zhu
(CEO)After an MA in Computer Science at the University of Virginia, Jiajun worked as Principal Software Engineer at Google for over 8 years. He left this role in August 2016 to co-found Nuro with Dave.
Dave Ferguson
(President)Experienced Robotics Engineer with stints at Google (Computer Vision and Machine Learning Lead) and Intel (Senior Research Scientist). PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University.
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