# Senior/Staff Systems Engineer, Autonomy Verification
**Company:** [Nuro](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/nuro)
**Location:** Mountain View, CA
**Salary:** $176K-$320K
**Skills:** Python, C++, Autonomous Systems, Simulation, Sae L4, Stpa, Iso-21448, Safety Case, Autonomy Architecture, Verification
**Posted:** 2026-02-10
> Develops and verifies requirements, metrics, and test strategies for autonomous vehicle safety within operational design domain. Requires 3+ years in AV/robotic systems validation, Python/C++ coding, and deep understanding of autonomy stack.
## Job Description
## About the Work
- Create requirements for an autonomous system, ensuring safe operation within its ODD and compliance with the rules of the road.
- Design generalizable metrics and acceptance criteria to verify that the autonomous system satisfies these requirements, leveraging safety standards and methodologies.
- Propose and leverage diverse test strategies - synthetic and log simulation, on-road logs, closed-course testing, third-party accident reconstructions - to verify requirements.
- Collaborate closely with 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.
- Quantify coverage of the tests for our ODD, ensuring simulation realism and relevance for deployment. Link the results from the tests as evidence to support the Autonomy Safety Case.

## About You
- 5+ years of technical work experience in a relevant area with 3+ years of experience with development or validation of autonomous vehicles/robotic systems.
- Experience creating behavior requirements for SAE L2, L3, or L4 autonomous systems or other robotic systems to operate safely within its ODD.
- Experience with simulation and real-world testing of autonomous systems.
- Strong understanding of the autonomy architecture - how sensing, localization, perception, prediction, behavior, and control modules interact.
- Hands-on software experience, with the ability to code in **Python** or **C++**.
- Highly collaborative in nature, with strong abilities to think and communicate analytically and effectively.

## Bonus Points
- Background in autonomous vehicles ideally with L4 AV deployment.
- Prior experience building computational models for driving behavior or ML based metrics for behavior evaluation.
- Familiarity with safety standards and methodologies like **STPA**, **ISO-21448**, **ISO 8800**.
- Experience developing a safety case or compiling evidence supporting a safety case in a structured manner.

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