Software Engineer, Performance

Nuro•Mountain View, CA

3h•$160,360 - $240,540

About The Position

We are looking for talented engineers to join our Performance team to optimize the performance of Nuro’s AV software, ensuring our vehicles can react quickly and safely to the world around them. The team builds systems and tools for continuous performance analysis and drives latency reduction and resource efficiency efforts to ensure the autonomy teams can implement an autonomy stack that is efficient and performant for the 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