Software Engineer, Fault Response Verification

Nuro•Mountain View, CA

57d•$132,300 - $198,450

About The Position

As a Software Engineer, Fault Response Verification you will work very closely with the Autonomy development, eval infrastructure, and data science teams. You will partner closely with our Autonomy software engineering team to define system level behavior requirements when a fault is present, implement metrics to assess requirement violations, build novel validation tooling and pipelines to achieve integration into our Safety Case and risk assessment frameworks, and contribute to risk quantification. As a key part of Nuro's systems approach, you will contribute to maintaining Autonomy's fault-centric architecture and stress test the autonomy software stack from system level down to modules through deterministic and probabilistic software-driven techniques towards a fail-operational system. Your work is expected to have short term impact in our next deployments, as well as long term impact on autonomy feature roadmapping and Nuro's scaled fleet operations.

Requirements

2+ years of technical work experience in robotics SW or relevant area.
Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree candidate in Computer Science, Math, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Physics, or related field.
Strong programming and algorithmic problem solving skills in Python or C++/C.
Technically fluent and experienced working in a team with strong software engineering practices.
Highly collaborative in nature with strong abilities to think and communicate analytically and effectively.
Self starter and fast learner - you should be passionate about picking up new skills and approaching unstructured problems from first principles.
You must have at least 2 years of experience in multiple of the following (not necessarily in industry): Software development in task level or behavior level robotics planning. Experience developing ML-based or heuristic-based evaluation methods to assess system performance. Analyzing and managing FDIR (fault detection, isolation, recovery) for the software stack on semi-autonomous or autonomous vehicles or equipment. Defining requirements using data-driven and first-principle techniques. Implementing test coverage for requirements. Adaptive stress testing or probabilistic software diagnostics.

Responsibilities

Dive into the system-level implications of Nuro's autonomy architecture and software to understand inter-dependency of failure modes with respect to the fault response.
Define requirements for fault response with decomposition through the autonomy software and hardware architecture.
Drive fault-centric validation concepts from prototype to production to test.
Interpret results from curated amounts of simulation, on-road, closed course testing to assess mission capabilities and safety with respect to faults.
Work closely with autonomy developers to extract high-impact metrics and performance indicators that will test our robots' readiness to drive autonomously on public roads in the event of degraded states of software.
Contribute to tooling for automated evaluation of issues in test logs that check for satisfaction of contingency requirements.