Senior Software Engineer, Performance

NuroMountain View, CA

About The Position

Nuro is seeking talented engineers to join its Performance team. This team is responsible for optimizing the performance of Nuro's autonomous vehicle (AV) software, ensuring vehicles can react quickly and safely. The team develops systems and tools for continuous performance analysis and leads efforts in latency reduction and resource efficiency. Their goal is to enable autonomy teams to implement an efficient and performant autonomy stack for current and future generations of the Nuro Driver.

Requirements

  • Strong system fundamentals and proficiency in C++
  • Expertise in computer architecture and operating systems
  • Experience developing in a highly-concurrent, multi-processor, and multi-threaded environment
  • Experience with performance optimizations and software porting across a variety of compute architectures - like x86, ARM, GPUs, SoCs
  • Experience with performance profiling tools such as perf, VTune, BPF, Nvidia Nsight Systems
  • 5+ years of relevant industry experience
  • BS, MS or PhD in CS, or related technical field

Nice To Haves

  • Experience with GPU programming (e.g. CUDA, OpenCL) and low level driver optimization for Nvidia GPUs.
  • Experience with Nvidia DriveOS or ROS.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze, profile, debug, monitor, and optimize the performance of AV software
  • Design and develop systems and tools for memory management, thread prioritization, process/thread lifetime management
  • Work with engineers from different teams to define the system-level architecture and building blocks
  • Build core libraries and APIs to enable autonomy engineers to write high-performance code
  • Drive and encourage best practices within the team and the rest of the organization

Benefits

  • annual performance bonus
  • equity
  • competitive benefits package
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