Senior/Staff Systems Engineer, Autonomy Verification

Nuro • Mountain View, CA

75d • $176,400 - $319,720

About The Position

As a Senior/Staff Systems Engineer working on Autonomy Verification, you are responsible for verifying that the behavior of the Nuro Driver is safe to deploy in our target ODD. This requires prior experience with the development or validation of autonomous systems, and a collaborative nature to work closely with a variety of teams across Nuro: Autonomy Software, Simulation, Product, and Operations. You will have end-to-end ownership from requirements definition, metric implementation, and test strategy development.

Requirements

• 5+ years of technical work experience in a relevant area with 3+ years of experience with development or validation of autonomous vehicles/robotic systems.
• Experience creating behavior requirements for SAE L2/L3/L4 or other robotic systems to operate safely within its ODD.
• Experience with simulation and real-world testing of autonomous systems.
• Strong understanding of the autonomy architecture - how sensing, localization, perception, prediction, behavior, and control modules interact.
• Hands-on software experience, with the ability to code in Python or C++.
• Highly collaborative in nature, with strong abilities to think and communicate analytically and effectively.

Nice To Haves

• Background in autonomous vehicles ideally with L4 AV deployment.
• Prior experience building computational models for driving behavior or ML based metrics for behavior evaluation.
• Familiarity with safety standards and methodologies like STPA, ISO-21448, ISO 8800.
• Experience developing a safety case or compiling evidence supporting a safety case in a structured manner.

Responsibilities

• Create requirements for the behavior of an autonomous system, ensuring safe operation within its ODD and compliance with the rules of the road.
• Develop generalizable behavior models and metrics to verify that the autonomous system satisfies these requirements.
• Propose and leverage diverse test strategies - synthetic and log simulation, onroad logs, closed course testing, third-party accident reconstructions - to verify requirements.
• Quantify coverage of the tests for our ODD, ensuring simulation realism and relevance for deployment.
• Link the results from the tests as evidence to support the Autonomy Safety Case.
• Collaborate closely with Behavior, Perception, Data Science, Product, Legal and Public Trust teams while developing acceptance criteria for metrics and tests.
• Partner with simulation infrastructure and test integration teams to set up automated verification workflows.

Benefits

• Annual performance bonus
• Equity
• Competitive benefits package

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees