Nuro

Staff Software Engineer, Onboard Infrastructure

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3 months ago
Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$235k - $352k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive technical direction for onboard infrastructure across Device Platform, Performance, and Onboard Systems.
  • Architect embedded-compute systems, sensor integration, runtime frameworks, inter-device communication, and distributed execution across vehicle platforms.
  • Lead performance and reliability efforts involving latency, resource efficiency, memory, thread and process lifecycles, observability, automated testing, and continuous validation.
  • Build foundational libraries, APIs, tools, and frameworks for reliable, low-latency, high-performance autonomy software.
  • Develop distributed onboard systems for communication between compute nodes, module orchestration, monitoring, logging, diagnostics, and autonomy and sensor data pipelines.
  • Diagnose difficult failures across software, hardware, sensors, compute, networking, and autonomy workloads, and drive root-cause resolution and prevention.
  • Partner with autonomy, hardware, safety, validation, operations, and supplier-facing teams to integrate next-generation platforms and ensure safe, reliable deployment.
  • Translate product, safety, and autonomy needs into scalable architecture, execution plans, interfaces, and long-term platform strategy.
  • Mentor engineers, establish engineering best practices, and raise technical standards across partner teams.

Requirements

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Robotics, or a related field.
  • 8+ years of software engineering experience building production-quality systems software.
  • 5+ years of technical leadership experience involving complex projects, technical direction, and cross-team alignment.
  • Strong proficiency in modern C++ with experience in concurrency, multithreading, debugging, memory management, and performance optimization.
  • Experience building reliable, high-performance software for robotics, embedded systems, autonomous systems, distributed systems, or other performance-critical platforms.
  • Strong systems-level expertise across operating systems, device interfaces, runtime frameworks, and application-level workloads.
  • Ability to diagnose complex performance, reliability, concurrency, and hardware/software integration issues.
  • Ability to translate ambiguous requirements into scalable architecture and mentor engineers through design and execution.
  • Experience with robotics hardware, sensors, embedded compute platforms, or autonomous vehicle systems is a bonus.
  • Knowledge of Linux, device drivers, computer architecture, kernel behavior, and communication protocols such as Ethernet, PCIe, USB, SPI, I2C, or UART is a bonus.
  • Experience with high-performance communication, IPC, networking stacks, logging, monitoring, diagnostics, or data collection systems is a bonus.
  • Experience with GPU programming, NVIDIA platforms, CUDA, image processing, machine learning infrastructure, or accelerated compute is a bonus.
  • Experience working with hardware suppliers or integrating next-generation sensor and compute platforms is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Annual performance bonus, equity, and a competitive benefits package.
  • The role is based on the stated compensation scope and may have a different pay range if considered for another level.
  • Nuro is committed to an inclusive and psychologically safe workplace.

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About Nuro

501-1,000 employees

Nuro is a self-driving technology company on a mission to improve everyday life with autonomy. Founded in 2016, Nuro is the universal autonomy platform for the mobility ecosystem, combining cutting-edge AI with automotive-grade hardware. Nuro licenses its core technology, the Nuro Driver™, to support a wide range of applications, from robotaxis and commercial fleets to personally owned vehicles. With technology proven over years of self-driving deployments, Nuro gives automakers and mobility platforms a clear path to AVs at commercial scale—empowering a safer, richer, and more connected future.

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