Staff Software Engineer, Performance

Highlights

• Build high-performance foundation for Nuro Driver across current and future vehicles.
• Lead latency and reliability efforts for safety-critical autonomous vehicle systems.
• Integrate next-gen sensors and compute with hardware, safety and autonomy teams.

What they offer

• Annual performance bonus
• Equity
• Competitive benefits package

Ideal candidate

Systems-minded technical leader with 8+ years building production infrastructure who thrives on ambiguous, cross-functional challenges and mentoring engineers to deliver safe, reliable autonomy.

Requirements

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Robotics, or related field
• 8+ years of software engineering experience building production-quality systems software
• 5+ years of technical leadership experience leading complex projects and driving cross-team alignment
• Strong proficiency in modern C++ with deep experience in concurrency
• Ability to translate ambiguous requirements into scalable architecture and mentor engineers
• Exceptional technical communication and stakeholder management skills