Staff/Senior Software Engineer, Onboard Infrastructure
$193,930–$352,290 year
On-site · Mountain View Santa Clara County, California, United States
Job Summary
Staff/Senior Software Engineer roles across Onboard Systems, Performance, and Devices Platform at Nuro. Responsibilities include developing a reliable, high-performance onboard software platform that enables autonomy software and algorithms to work safely and reliably with hardware; optimizing performance and latency; building device drivers, inter-device protocols, and device runtime APIs for a hardware-agnostic platform used by perception and autonomy stacks; collaborating with software, hardware, and safety teams as well as external suppliers. Desired skills include strong C++ (and Python) expertise, experience with large-scale distributed systems, robotics software frameworks, and multiple compute modalities (x86, ARM, GPU, FPGA). The role highlights that base pay is part of total compensation with a disclosed range ($193,930 - $352,290) and is eligible for annual performance bonus, equity, and benefits. The posted locations are Nuro HQ in Mountain View, CA (US). The posting emphasizes equal opportunity employment.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Robotics, or related field
- Strong C++ skills
- Experience in large-scale distributed systems, computer architecture and operating systems, advanced algorithms using C++ and Python, highly-concurrent multi-processor and multi-threaded environments
- Experience with profiling/tracing tools and infrastructure (perf, eBPF, Perfetto, pprof, NVIDIA Nsight Systems/Compute)
- Robotics software frameworks; robotics hardware components (sensors, embedded platforms)
- Ability to collaborate with internal stakeholders and external suppliers
- Base pay range and annual performance bonus, equity, and benefits
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