Software Engineer, Performance Simulation Platform

Who We Are 

Nuro exists to better everyday life through robotics. Founded in 2016, Nuro is a leading autonomous technology company with vehicles on road today in California and Texas. The company’s core technology is the Nuro Driver, an integrated autonomous driving system consisting of state-of-the-art, AI-first software and custom-built sense and compute hardware. The first commercial application of the Nuro Driver is autonomous goods delivery with our custom, electric, zero-occupant vehicles in partnership with some of the most recognized brands in the world including Uber and FedEx.

About the Role

Nuro leverages many different bench-top systems to evaluate and regression test different aspects of the software and hardware integration layer. This includes systems for creating simulated latency profiles on robot-native compute platforms, camera ISP tuning, and much more. In order to efficiently and effectively manage these systems, we’ve built and integrated infrastructure to support automated test workflows and data post processing. 

Engineers use these systems to answer questions like:

• How will my new ML model affect contention on the GPU?
• How does this change affect our sensor-to-actuation E2E latency?
• How does this impact onboard logging rate as more data might be flowing from Perception to Behavior?

Our team is growing and we’re looking for an engineer to help with development and technical roadmap.

About the Work

• Build infrastructure and data pipelines to characterize the performance of the Nuro Driver.
• Build tooling to enable introspection into performance and system contention in the autonomy system.
• Work with stakeholders across HW Engineering, NPI, and Infrastructure to bring new system designs from a concept to fully operational service.
• Work with stakeholders on the Perception, Behavior, Performance, and other teams to build systems that improve E2E testing times for otherwise painful workflows.
• Work with the Data Science team to develop tooling and experimentation methodology for statistical understanding of performance results from non-deterministic workflows.

About You

• Experience: 3+ years of experience working in the software industry or related experience.
• Domain experience: Experience with common infrastructure and data engineering engineering concepts, Linux systems, and writing software for/debugging prototype hardware.
• Engineering leadership: Experience setting team or project product and technical vision, timelines and prioritization. Clear and concise communicator who collaborates effectively with PMs, engineers, and other stakeholders.
• Technical excellence: Ability and willingness to deep dive into implementation, driving technical standards and best practices across broader software organization; strong proficiency in C++ and Python.

Bonus Points

• Experience with on-prem infrastructure deployed on custom hardware
• Experience in robotics or AV
• Experience with performance engineering
• Experience with distributed systems

At Nuro, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. For this position, the reasonably expected base pay range is between $138,000 and $207,000 for the level at which this job has been scoped. Your base pay will depend on several factors, including your experience, qualifications, education, location, and skills. In the event that you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range would apply. This position is also eligible for an annual performance bonus, equity, and a competitive benefits package.

At Nuro, we celebrate differences and are committed to a diverse workplace that fosters inclusion and psychological safety for all employees. Nuro is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and expressly prohibits any form of workplace discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics.