Nuro
Senior/Staff Software Engineer, AI Agent Infrastructure
Mountain View, California (HQ) · Staff+
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About the role
- We already operate a substantial agent system in production - a fleet of agents with an extensive library of skills and plugins, integrated into the tools our engineers use daily.
- This role is about what it takes to make that system trustworthy, autonomous, and an order of magnitude more capable.
- Acceptance, revert, and override rates per workflow.
Responsibilities
- Nuro believes self-driving vehicles are the most immediate and profound opportunity for AI to drive positive change in the physical world.
- Safer streets, more time for what matters, and easier access to the world around us, that's why we're building a universal autonomy platform: self-driving for all roads and all rides.
- Our ambition is to build the most rigorous evaluation system for AI work anywhere - closed-loop, meaning every agent action produces a measurable outcome that feeds back into whether that agent is trusted to act again.
- Build the closed-loop measurement layer that tells us, per workflow, whether agent output is accepted, reverted, or overridden - and use it to decide where autonomy expands and where it gets pulled back.
- Design the isolation and permissioning model that lets agents act on production repositories and infrastructure with an auditable record of what they did and why.
- Any team can rent the same intelligence we can, and the model we build on today will be replaced within a month.
- Not a better IDE, not a faster build - a change in what a single person can attempt.
- So our central ambition is to build the most rigorous closed-loop evaluation system for AI work anywhere.
- You will work directly with engineering leadership and the CEO, and the decisions you make will be yours to make rather than yours to implement.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience (or 4+ with a Master's) in computer science, engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- You know what happens under the hood at inference.
- You have built and operated LLM-based agent systems in production - tool use, orchestration, sandboxing, retrieval, memory - and you know where they break.
- You are opinionated about evaluation.
- You have argued with someone about whether a benchmark measured anything real, and you were right.
- You work end-to-end and do not need the problem pre-decomposed.
- Hands-on post-training or fine-tuning experience - SFT, preference optimization, RL, distillation - including the evaluation work required to know whether it helped.
- Take the autoresearch loop from assisted to unattended for a bounded class of experiments, including the eval and confidence machinery required to run it without a human in the loop.
- Experience with open tool-integration protocols, plugin or skill frameworks, and model-routing or gateway layers.
Compensation
- At Nuro, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package.
Company info
- Nuro believes self-driving vehicles are the most immediate and profound opportunity for AI to drive positive change in the physical world. Safer streets, more time for what matters, and easier access to the world around us, that's why we're building a universal autonomy platform: self-driving for all roads and all rides.
- Founded in 2016, Nuro is a physical AI company developing Level 4 autonomous driving technology for a wide range of vehicles, use cases, and markets. Powered by the Nuro Driver™, our universal autonomy platform enables the global mobility ecosystem to deploy autonomy at scale, from robotaxis and logistics fleets to personal vehicles.
- With years of real-world deployment experience and a flexible, partner-led business model, Nuro is working toward a future where millions of autonomous vehicles powered by our technology help make everyday life safer, easier, and more connected.
- Nuro has raised over $2B in capital from Uber, NVIDIA, Google, Softbank, Fidelity, T. Rowe Price, and other leading investors.
- Founded in 2016, Nuro is a physical AI company developing Level 4 autonomous driving technology for a wide range of vehicles, use cases, and markets.
- Powered by the Nuro Driver™, our universal autonomy platform enables the global mobility ecosystem to deploy autonomy at scale, from robotaxis and logistics fleets to personal vehicles.
- Nuro has raised over $2B in capital from Uber, NVIDIA, Google, Softbank, Fidelity, T.
- Rowe Price, and other leading investors.
- Frontier models are fungible.
- What is not fungible is the infrastructure that decides whether an autonomous system's output can be trusted - evaluation, verification, and the discipline to gate on evidence instead of impressions.
- Nuro has spent a decade building exactly that discipline for a robot that drives on public roads, and this team turns it inward: we build the platform that lets AI agents operate autonomously inside Nuro's own engineering organization, under the same standard of proof we apply to the vehicle.
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