Nuro
Senior Software Engineer, Performance Tooling and Infrastructure
$183K–$275K
Mountain View, California (HQ) +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Apr 7, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, California (HQ)
Nuro HQ - Mountain View, CA - Experience
- 5+ years of industry software engineering experience.
About the job
Own and evolve Nuro’s physical-hardware performance benchmarking platform, enabling teams to validate autonomy software performance and gate releases.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain benchmark orchestration integrated with CI/CD, including merge- and release-blocking quality gates.
- Develop platform reliability, observability, and performance data pipelines with dashboards and automated regression detection.
- Set the platform roadmap and guide hardware allocation, system configuration, and cross-functional delivery.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of industry software engineering experience.
- Strong proficiency in Python and working proficiency in C++.
- Experience building data pipelines and deep comfort with Linux systems and infrastructure.
- Experience setting technical vision and roadmap, aligning stakeholders, and briefing senior engineering leadership.
Nice to have
- Performance engineering or profiling-tool integration experience.
- Robotics or AV experience, particularly with NVIDIA DriveOS stack.
Pay
$183,000 and $275,000 (base salary)
Tools
Python, C++, Linux, SQL, Kubernetes, GCP, BigQuery, Grafana
AI focus
Use agentic AI tooling across the development lifecycle and apply scrutiny where AI output requires it.
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