Senior Software Engineer, Nuro

Engineering Productivity

$152-228k

+ This position is also eligible for an annual performance bonus + Equity

AWS

Kubernetes

GCP

Python

C++

CMake

Bazel

Golang

Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Thursdays in office

3 days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)

Autonomous delivery vehicle manufacturer

Open for applications

Autonomous delivery vehicle manufacturer

501-1000 employees

B2BLogisticsRoboticsElectric VehiclesComputer VisionAutomationDelivery

Open for applications

$152-228k

+ This position is also eligible for an annual performance bonus + Equity

AWS

Kubernetes

GCP

Python

C++

CMake

Bazel

Golang

Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Thursdays in office

3 days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)

501-1000 employees

B2BLogisticsRoboticsElectric VehiclesComputer VisionAutomationDelivery

Company mission

To better everyday life through robotics.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Inefficiency bothers you. The thought of taking a frustrating process and making it elegant sounds appealing
You have strong software engineering skills in C++, Python, or Golang
You can flexibly build new tools end to end to address constantly changing developer needs
You are passionate about software engineering best practices
You know how to build scalable and reliable infrastructure pipelines
You are highly collaborative and care about creating the best possible user experience
Strong candidates have expertise in build frameworks such as Bazel, CMake, and Buildbarn. Familiar with popular cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS, and Kubernetes cluster in depth
3+ years of experience and a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in computer science, software engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience

What the job involves

Collaborate with engineers across Nuro to identify pain points in the engineering process. Define, instrument, analyze, communicate, and monitor batch/stream metrics related to engineering velocity and system health
Creatively address day to day developer inefficiencies using the best methods available . This can mean making new internal tools, extending existing tools, or introducing new tools to the company
Build scalable infrastructure that continuously merges, builds, tests, and releases code while balancing coverage, speed, and cost. This is a challenging problem with no out of the box solution, especially due to the complexities of Nuro’s machine learning and hardware tests. Solving this requires employing state of the art techniques in areas like build optimization, intelligent test selection, and culprit finding
Own and improve fundamental libraries e.g. APIs/clients to interact with complex systems. This includes managing code dependencies (including third party libraries) and managing the structure of Nuro’s codebase
Educate developers on best practices and new tools
Leverage Generative AI to boost engineering productivity

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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