# Senior Software Engineer, Performance Tooling and Infrastructure

**Company:** [Nuro](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/nuro)
**Location:** Mountain View, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $183k – $275k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, C++, Kubernetes, GCP, BigQuery, Grafana, Linux, SQL, Ebpf, Nvidia Nsight Systems
**Posted:** 2026-04-07

> Owns performance simulation platform infrastructure for validating autonomy code changes on robot hardware, including benchmarking orchestration, data pipelines, observability, and fleet management. Requires 5+ years experience in Python/C++, Linux systems, data engineering, with technical leadership.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain job orchestration layer for scheduling, executing, and validating autonomy performance benchmarks across physical bench-top systems, integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
- Build monitoring, alerting, and self-healing automation for the bench fleet; track utilization, failure rates, and capacity trends.
- Design and build end-to-end data pipelines capturing performance metrics (CPU/GPU utilization, memory bandwidth, E2E latency, scheduling jitter) and surface insights via dashboards and regression detection.
- Collaborate with Data Science on statistical analysis and experimentation for non-deterministic workloads.
- Guide SRE on OS and system-level configuration of bench hardware (Linux kernel tuning, boot infrastructure, networking).
- Own planning lifecycle for benchmarking fleet, negotiate hardware allocation, and present trade-off recommendations.
- Partner with Hardware Engineering, NPI, SRE, Perception, Behavior, and Data Science teams.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of industry software engineering experience.
- Strong proficiency in **Python** and working proficiency in **C++**.
- Experience building data pipelines, ingestion, transformation, storage, and visualization; familiarity with **SQL**.
- Deep knowledge of **Linux** systems (kernel configuration, boot issues, systemd, bare-metal infrastructure, networking, storage).
- Technical leadership: setting vision, roadmap, driving stakeholder alignment, briefing leadership.
- AI-native workflow using agentic tooling.
- Bias for action in ambiguous environments.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Performance engineering tools: **perf**, **Perfetto**, **pprof**, **eBPF**, **NVIDIA Nsight Systems**, **NVIDIA CUPTI**.
- Experience in robotics or AV, especially **NVIDIA DriveOS**.

## Compensation
- Base pay: $183,000 - $275,000 (depending on experience, qualifications, education, location, skills).
- Eligible for annual performance bonus, equity, and competitive benefits.

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