Software Engineer, Onboard Infrastructure

About the position

Nuro is seeking talented software engineers to join its growing software team, focusing on one of three key areas: Onboard Systems, Performance, and Devices Platform. The Onboard Systems team provides a reliable, high-performance platform for autonomy software integration, requiring close collaboration with software, hardware, and systems/safety teams. The Performance team optimizes Nuro’s AV software for speed and safety, developing systems for continuous performance analysis and latency reduction. The Devices Platform team builds the foundation for Nuro’s onboard software for its sensor and compute platform, including device drivers, protocols, and runtime APIs, and is responsible for defining, evaluating, and integrating next-generation hardware.

Responsibilities

  • Provide a reliable and high-performance platform that allows autonomy teams to integrate their autonomy software and algorithms that work across various self-driving platforms.
  • Make sure new software and hardware work together safely and reliably, and resolve onboard error and performance problems.
  • Optimize the performance of Nuro’s AV software, ensuring vehicles can react quickly and safely to the world around them.
  • Build systems and tools for continuous performance analysis, and drive latency reduction and resource efficiency efforts.
  • Lay the foundation of Nuro’s onboard software for our sensor and compute platform, including device drivers, inter-device protocols and pipelines, and device runtime APIs.
  • Create the hardware-agnostic platform to be used by the perception and autonomy SW stack, and to realize the full potential of our sensor and compute HW in reliability, quality, and performance.
  • Work with internal stakeholders and external suppliers to define, evaluate, and integrate the next-generation HW platform for Nuro’s products.
  • Build the necessary tooling to assist continuous testing and validation.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of relevant industry experience
  • 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
  • Experience in computer architecture and operating systems
  • Experience with advanced algorithms using C++ and Python
  • Experience in highly-concurrent, multi-processor, and multi-threaded environments
  • Experience in software performance tuning and optimization
  • Experience with profiling and tracing tools and infrastructure (perf, eBPF, Perfetto, pprof, NVIDIA Nsight Systems/Compute)
  • Experience with robotics software frameworks
  • Experience with robotics hardware components (including sensors, embedded platforms, etc)
  • Experience with different compute modalities (x86, ARM, GPU, FPGA, etc)
  • Strong problem-solving and programming skills.

Benefits

  • Annual performance bonus
  • Equity
  • Competitive benefits package
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