Staff/Senior Software Engineer, Onboard Infrastructure

Nuro•Mountain View, CA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Nuro is seeking talented software engineers to join its growing team, focusing on one of three key areas: Onboard Systems, Performance, and Devices Platform. The Onboard Systems team provides a reliable, high-performance platform for autonomy teams, requiring close collaboration with software, hardware, and systems/safety teams. The Performance team optimizes AV software for quick and safe reactions, building systems for continuous analysis and driving latency reduction. The Devices Platform team establishes the foundation for Nuro's onboard software for sensor and compute platforms, developing hardware-agnostic solutions and integrating next-generation hardware.

Requirements

5+ years of relevant industry experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Robotics, or related field
Strong C++ skills
Experience in large-scale distributed systems
Experience in computer architecture and operating systems
Experience with advanced algorithms using C++ and Python
Experience in highly-concurrent, multi-processor, and multi-threaded environments
Experience in software performance tuning and optimization
Experience with profiling and tracing tools and infrastructure (perf, eBPF, Perfetto, pprof, NVIDIA Nsight Systems/Compute)
Experience with robotics software frameworks
Experience with robotics hardware components (including sensors, embedded platforms, etc)
Experience with different compute modalities (x86, ARM, GPU, FPGA, etc)
Strong problem-solving and programming skills

Responsibilities

Provide a reliable and high-performance platform for autonomy teams to integrate their software and algorithms across various self-driving platforms.
Collaborate closely with software, hardware, and systems/safety teams to ensure safe and reliable integration of new software and hardware.
Resolve onboard error and performance problems.
Optimize the performance of Nuro’s AV software, ensuring vehicles can react quickly and safely.
Build systems and tools for continuous performance analysis.
Drive latency reduction and resource efficiency efforts.
Lay the foundation of Nuro’s onboard software for our sensor and compute platform, including device drivers, inter-device protocols and pipelines, and device runtime APIs.
Create a hardware-agnostic platform for the perception and autonomy SW stack.
Work with internal stakeholders and external suppliers to define, evaluate, and integrate the next-generation HW platform.
Build necessary tooling to assist continuous testing and validation.