Senior Software Engineer, Nuro
Infrastructure
$183-275k
+ Annual performance bonus & equity
Office located in Mountain View, CA
Autonomous delivery vehicle manufacturer
Job no longer available
Autonomous delivery vehicle manufacturer
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$183-275k
+ Annual performance bonus & equity
Office located in Mountain View, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To better everyday life through robotics.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: Have 5+ 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 Python
- Experience in robotics or AV
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 with distributed systems
What the job involves
- Nuro leverages many different bench-top systems to evaluate and regression test different aspects of the software and hardware integration layer. This performance simulation platform includes systems for creating simulated latency profiles on robot-native compute platforms, camera ISP tuning, and much more
- In order to efficiently and effectively manage these systems, we’ve built and integrated infrastructure to support automated autonomy benchmarking workflows and data post processing. You will be responsible for development and integration of this hybrid cloud performance benchmarking cluster, which is a necessary cornerstone of testing for all autonomy feature development
- Engineers use these systems to answer questions like:
- How will my new ML model affect contention on the GPU?
- How does this change affect our sensor-to-actuation E2E latency?
- How does this impact onboard logging rate as more data might be flowing from Perception to Behavior?
- Our team is growing and we’re looking for an engineer to help with development and technical roadmap
- 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. Following Series E funding in 2025, the company is focusing on growing new commercial partnerships and scaling its technology.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-29% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2025
$203m
SERIES E
Nov 2021
$600m
SERIES D
Total funding: $2.3bn
Company benefits
- Free Caltrain pass and commuter benefits
- Company stock options
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Jiajun Zhu
(Co-Founder & Co-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
(Co-Founder)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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