Senior Software Engineer, Nuro
Sensor Platform
$152-228k
Plus 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
$152-228k
Plus 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
- Domain experience: Experience in robotics or autonomous driving systems
- Technical excellence: Proven ability to deep dive into complex real-time systems; strong proficiency in C++, with emphasis on concurrency; system software development expertise, from the device driver to the application level, with deep understanding of Linux kernel-level algorithmic correctness and performance optimization
- 6+ years of experience with a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related field; 4+ years of experience with a Ph.D degree
- Clear and concise communication who collaborates effectively with engineers, PMs, and other stakeholders
Desirable
- Experience in robotics hardware components, including sensors, embedded platforms (with multiple CPUs, GPUs, ISPs, and accelerators)
- Experience with programming peripheral devices and device communication protocols such as USB, SPI, I2C, UART
- Experience with radar, lidar, visual or thermal imaging cameras
- Experience with machine learning or image processing
- Experience with GPU programming and low level driver optimization for Nvidia GPUs
- Knowledge of Linux kernel and device driver level programming, including threading, IPC, shared memory, and synchronization
- Knowledge of networking, full IP protocol stack, from PHY through TCP, UDP, and to application layer
What the job involves
- The Devices Platform team’s mandate is to lay the foundation of Nuro’s onboard software for our sensor and compute platform, including device drivers, inter-device protocols and pipelines, and device runtime APIs.
- Sensors and compute hardware are the eyes, ears, and brains of our self-driving robots.
- We are creating the hardware-agnostic platform to be used by the perception and autonomy SW stack, and to realize the full potential of our sensor and compute HW in reliability, quality, and performance. The projects we work on are high impact and high visibility within Nuro.
- This team is also responsible for working with internal stakeholders and external suppliers to define, evaluate, integrate the next generation HW platform for Nuro’s products and to build the necessary tooling to assist continuous testing and validation
- Design and develop sensor and compute systems for robotics
- Architect and/or deploy Nuro sensors & autonomous SW with high reliability and performance
- Deliver reliable SW through metrics monitoring, automated testing, and vendor collaboration
- Debug complex systems, root-cause failure modes, and deploy effective solutions
- Lead cross-functional projects on sensors and compute for autonomous vehicles
- Mentor software engineers to bring them to their full potential
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
Articles
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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