Software Engineer, Nuro

Performance Simulation Platform

$152-228k

+ Annual Performance Bonus + Equity

Python

Linux

C++

Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Mountain View, CA

Autonomous delivery vehicle manufacturer

Be an early applicant

Autonomous delivery vehicle manufacturer

501-1000 employees

B2BLogisticsRoboticsElectric VehiclesComputer VisionAutomationDelivery

Be an early applicant

$152-228k

+ Annual Performance Bonus + Equity

Python

Linux

C++

Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Mountain View, CA

501-1000 employees

B2BLogisticsRoboticsElectric VehiclesComputer VisionAutomationDelivery

Company mission

To better everyday life through robotics.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Experience: Have 3+ years of experience working in the software industry or related experience
Domain experience: Experience with common infrastructure and data engineering concepts, Linux systems, and writing software for/debugging prototype hardware
Engineering leadership: Experience setting team or project product and technical vision, timelines and prioritization. Clear and concise communicator who collaborates effectively with PMs, engineers, and other stakeholders
Technical excellence: Ability and willingness to deep dive into implementation, driving technical standards and best practices across broader software organization; strong proficiency in C++ and Python

Desirable

Experience with performance engineering, especially around tooling integration (perf, Perfetto, pprof, eBPF, NVIDIA Nsight Systems, NVIDIA CUPTI)
Experience with on-prem infrastructure deployed on custom hardware
Experience with integrating AI tools into data analysis pipelines
Experience with NVIDIA DriveOS stack
Experience in robotics or AV
Experience with distributed systems

What the job involves

Build infrastructure and data pipelines to characterize the performance of the Nuro Driver
Build tooling to enable introspection into performance and system contention in the autonomy system
Work with stakeholders across HW Engineering, NPI, and Infrastructure to bring new system designs from a concept to fully operational service
Work with stakeholders on the Perception, Behavior, Performance, and other teams to build systems that improve E2E testing times for otherwise painful workflows
Work with the Data Science team to develop tooling and experimentation methodology for statistical understanding of performance results from non-deterministic workflows

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.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

-29% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.8)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Apr 2025

$106m

SERIES E

Nov 2021

$600m

SERIES D

Total funding: $2.2bn

Company benefits

Free Caltrain pass and commuter benefits
Company stock options
Work from home opportunities
Health insurance

Company HQ

Mountain View, CA

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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