# Software Engineer, Performance

**Company:** [Nuro](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/nuro)
**Location:** Mountain View, CA
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $153k – $175k/yr
**Experience:** 0+ years
**Skills:** C++, computer architecture, operating systems, Concurrency, multi-threading, Performance Optimization, x86, arm, GPU, soc, perf, vtune, bpf, nvidia nsight systems, CUDA
**Posted:** 2026-07-16

> New grad software engineer optimizing performance of autonomous vehicle software. Profile, debug, and reduce latency of C++ systems running on multi-threaded, multi-architecture compute platforms (x86, ARM, GPU).

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Analyze, profile, debug, monitor, and optimize the performance of AV software.
- Design and develop systems and tools for memory management, thread prioritization, process/thread lifetime management.
- Work with engineers from different teams to define the system-level architecture and building blocks.
- Build core libraries and APIs to enable autonomy engineers to write high-performance code.
- Drive and encourage best practices within the team and the rest of the organization.

## Requirements
- Strong system fundamentals and proficiency in C++.
- Expertise in computer architecture and operating systems.
- Experience developing in a highly concurrent, multi-processor, and multi-threaded environment.
- Experience with performance optimizations and software porting across a variety of compute architectures - like x86, ARM, GPUs, SoCs.
- Experience with performance profiling tools such as perf, VTune, BPF, Nvidia Nsight Systems.
- BS, MS or PhD in CS, or related technical field.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with GPU programming (e.g. CUDA, OpenCL) and low-level driver optimization for Nvidia GPUs.
- Experience with Nvidia DriveOS or ROS.

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