Nuro
Principal Software Engineer, Onboard Infrastructure
Mountain View, California (HQ) · Principal
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 26 days ago
C++Distributed SystemsLinuxMachine LearningLogisticsEmbedded SystemsRoboticsElectrical EngineeringSensorsTest AutomationLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- This role spans Device Platform, Performance, and Onboard Systems, requiring deep technical leadership across sensor and compute integration, onboard runtime systems, distributed execution, and autonomy software performance.
- You will architect hardware-agnostic device interfaces, inter-device communication pipelines, runtime APIs, and onboard software platforms that enable Nuro's autonomy stack to run safely and efficiently across current and future vehicle platforms.
- This is a highly cross-functional and high-impact role.
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.
- As a Staff Technical Lead on Onboard Infrastructure, you will help define and build the high-performance, highly reliable foundation of the Nuro Driver.
- Define and drive technical direction for Nuro's onboard infrastructure across Device Platform, Performance, and Onboard Systems.
- Develop onboard distributed systems, including high-performance communication between compute nodes, module orchestration, monitoring, logging, diagnostics, and large-scale autonomy/sensor data pipelines.
- Diagnose complex, hard-to-reproduce failures across software, hardware, sensors, compute, networking, and autonomy workloads; drive root cause, mitigation, and long-term prevention.
- Translate ambiguous product, safety, and autonomy needs into scalable technical architecture; align teams on design direction, execution plans, interfaces, and long-term platform strategy.
- Partner with autonomy, hardware, safety, validation, operations, and suppliers to define requirements, evaluate and integrate next-generation platforms, and ensure safe, reliable deployment.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience building production-quality systems software.
- Experience building reliable, high-performance software for robotics, embedded systems, autonomous systems, distributed systems, or other performance-critical platforms.
Requirements
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Robotics, or related field.
- Strong proficiency in modern C++, with deep experience in concurrency, multi-threading, debugging, memory management, and performance optimization.
- Strong systems-level expertise, with the ability to reason across operating systems, device interfaces, runtime frameworks, and application-level workloads.
- Proven ability to diagnose complex performance, reliability, concurrency, and hardware/software integration issues.
- Master's degree or PhD in CS, EE, Computer Engineering, Robotics, or a related field.
- Experience with robotics hardware, sensors, embedded compute platforms, or autonomous vehicle systems.
- Experience with high-performance communication, IPC, networking stacks, logging, monitoring, diagnostics, or data collection systems.
Compensation
- At Nuro, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package.
Benefits
- Experience with GPU programming, NVIDIA platforms, CUDA, image processing, machine learning infrastructure, or accelerated compute.
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.
- We are looking for a technical leader who can operate across team boundaries, align multiple stakeholders, mentor engineers, and deliver robust systems for safety-critical autonomous vehicles.
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