# Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Labeling Platform

**Company:** [Nuro](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/nuro)
**Location:** Mountain View, CA
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $235k – $352k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, C++, Go, Distributed Systems, ml research, Observability, Monitoring, Incident Management
**Posted:** 2026-07-16

> Build and productionize scalable, highly available distributed systems and infrastructure for Nuro's data labeling platform that powers autonomous driving ML models. Requires 5+ years experience with reliable large-scale data systems, technical leadership, and strong programming skills in Python, C++, or Go.

## Job Description

## About the Work
- Build highly available, fault-tolerant systems for data annotation
- Productionize core infrastructure for our state-of-the-art autonomy system
- Elevate label quality by implementing data-driven metrics and monitoring
- Apply cutting-edge ML research to automate and optimize the data labeling lifecycle

## About You
- B.Sc. or M.Sc. degree and 5+ years of relevant industry experience
- Experience in designing, building, and operating highly scalable and reliable distributed data systems
- Experience leading cross-team projects and have excellent communication skills
- Experienced in defining technical visions, creating roadmaps, and setting timelines and prioritization for a team or project
- Strong problem-solving and programming skills in Python, C++ or Go

## Bonus Points
- Experience building reliable large scale distributed systems
- Experience with observability, monitoring and incident management
- Experience applying ML research in real world applications
- Experience leading teams, designing and executing team roadmaps

Base pay range is $235,030 - $352,290. Eligible for annual performance bonus, equity, and competitive benefits package.

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