Software Engineer, Performance - New Grad

Nuro•Mountain View, CA

About The Position

Nuro is seeking talented engineers to join their Performance team. This role focuses on optimizing the performance of Nuro’s AV software, ensuring vehicles can react quickly and safely. The team develops systems and tools for continuous performance analysis, drives latency reduction, and works on resource efficiency to support the autonomy teams in implementing an efficient and performant autonomy stack for current and future Nuro Driver generations.

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 (e.g., x86, ARM, GPUs, SoCs).
Experience with performance profiling tools such as perf, VTune, BPF, Nvidia Nsight Systems.
BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a 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, and process/thread lifetime management.
Collaborate with engineers from different teams to define 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.