Nuro
Senior Software Engineer, Perception ML
$194K–$291K
Mountain View, California (HQ) +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Feb 6, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, California (HQ)
Nuro HQ - Mountain View, CA - Experience
- 4+ years of industry software engineering experience.
- Education
- BS in Computer Science, Robotics, Statistics, Physics, Math, or another quantitative area.
About the job
Develop and improve perception ML models so autonomous vehicles can understand sensor data, handle rare scenarios, and meet quality and onboard runtime requirements.
What you'll do
- Own perception-model architecture, objectives, training, and experiments; evaluate and improve model performance.
- Design controlled experiments and ablations, and diagnose model failures across modeling, supervision, data, and optimization.
- Collaborate with autonomy and infrastructure engineers to translate sensor data and failure analysis into model improvements.
What they ask for
- BS in Computer Science, Robotics, Statistics, Physics, Math, or another quantitative area.
- 4+ years of industry software engineering experience.
- Python fluency and C/C++ familiarity.
- Hands-on depth developing, training, debugging, and improving ML models; ability to lead cross-functional technical projects from design to completion.
Nice to have
- Experience with occupancy, 3D scene understanding, or onboard perception models.
- Familiarity working with synthetic or autonomous driving data.
Pay
$193,930.00 and $291,150.00/year (USD; base pay)
Tools
Python, C/C++
AI focus
Applied ML for autonomous-vehicle perception, including 3D and spatial scene understanding, generalization across sensors and geographies, and handling rare driving scenarios.
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