# Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Behavior Verification
**Company:** [Nuro](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/nuro)
**Location:** Mountain View, CA
**Salary:** $176K-$320K
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, C++, Machine Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, Simulation, Robotics, Behavior Planning, Perception, Prediction, Safety Metrics
**Posted:** 2026-02-10
> Develops and implements Python-based metrics to verify end-to-end driving behavior of autonomous vehicles, ensuring safety using ML models and simulations. Requires 5+ years experience, Python/C++ proficiency, and robotics knowledge.
## Job Description
## About the Work
- Develop and implement in Python generalizable metrics to verify the driving behavior of an autonomous vehicle.
- Leverage a combination of machine learning (ML) models and safety metrics from literature to evaluate the end-to-end driving behavior.
- Evaluate these metrics on a variety of tests: synthetic and log simulation, on-road logs, closed-course testing data, and third-party accident reconstructions.
- Collaborate closely with Systems, Behavior, Perception, Data Science, Product, Legal and Public Trust teams to develop acceptance criteria for metrics and tests.
- Partner with simulation infrastructure and test integration teams to set up automated verification workflows.
- Generate detailed performance and validation reports to prove that the behavior of the autonomous system is safe to deploy in our target Operation Design Domain (ODD).

## About You
- 5+ years of technical work experience in a relevant area with 3+ years of experience with software development.
- Hands-on software experience, with the ability to code proficiently in Python or C++.
- Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Physics, or related field.
- Strong understanding of robotic systems architecture - how sensing, localization, perception, prediction, behavior, and control modules interact.
- Familiarity with simulation and real-world testing of autonomous systems.
- Highly collaborative in nature, with strong abilities to think and communicate analytically and effectively.

## Bonus Points
- Background in autonomous vehicles ideally with developing software for L4 autonomous.
- Prior experience building computational models for driving behavior or ML based metrics for behavior evaluation.

## Compensation
Base pay range: $176,400 - $319,720. Eligible for annual performance bonus, equity, and competitive benefits package.
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