Staff/Senior Software Engineer, Onboard Infrastructure
Build and optimize onboard infrastructure and performance for Nuro's self-driving vehicles. Requires 5+ years experience, strong C++ skills, and expertise in distributed systems, computer architecture, or robotics platforms.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Provide a reliable and high-performance platform for autonomy teams to integrate software and algorithms across self-driving platforms
- Collaborate with software, hardware, and systems/safety teams to ensure new software and hardware work together safely and reliably
- Resolve onboard error and performance problems
- Optimize performance of AV software for quick and safe reactions
- Build systems and tools for continuous performance analysis
- Drive latency reduction and resource efficiency efforts
- Lay the foundation of onboard software for sensor and compute platform, including device drivers, inter-device protocols and pipelines, and device runtime APIs
- Create hardware-agnostic platform for perception and autonomy SW stack
- Work with internal stakeholders and external suppliers to define, evaluate, and integrate next-generation HW platforms
- Build tooling to assist continuous testing and validation
Requirements
- 5+ 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 one or more of: large-scale distributed systems; computer architecture and operating systems; advanced algorithms using C++ and Python; highly-concurrent, multi-processor, and multi-threaded environments; software performance tuning and optimization; profiling and tracing tools and infrastructure (perf, eBPF, Perfetto, pprof, NVIDIA Nsight Systems/Compute); robotics software frameworks; robotics hardware components (including sensors, embedded platforms, etc); different compute modalities (x86, ARM, GPU, FPGA, etc)
- Strong problem-solving and programming skills
Compensation & Benefits
- Base pay range: $193,930 - $352,290
- Annual performance bonus
- Equity
- Competitive benefits package
Skills
C++, Python, Distributed Systems, Computer Architecture, Operating Systems, Performance Tuning, Profiling Tools, Ebpf, Perfetto, Robotics Software Frameworks
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