Software Engineer, Performance

Nuro•Mountain View, CA

About The Position

Nuro is seeking talented engineers to join its Performance team. This role focuses on optimizing the performance of Nuro’s AV software, ensuring vehicles can react quickly and safely. The team is responsible for building systems and tools for continuous performance analysis, driving latency reduction, and improving resource efficiency. This ensures that autonomy teams can 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
2+ 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