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Nuro

Software Engineer, Performance Tooling and Infrastructure

$152K–$228K

Mountain View, California (HQ) +1 · Full-time · Posted Apr 7, 2026

Location
Mountain View, California (HQ)
Nuro HQ - Mountain View, CA
Experience
3+ years of industry software engineering experience.

About the job

Own and evolve Nuro’s performance simulation platform, benchmarking autonomy software on physical robot-compute systems and turning results into reliable performance data and release gates.

What you'll do

  • Develop and maintain benchmark orchestration integrated with CI/CD as merge- and release-blocking quality gates; improve fleet reliability and observability.
  • Build performance data pipelines, dashboards, and automated regression detection; develop statistical methods for non-deterministic workloads.
  • Guide bare-metal system configuration and own fleet planning, technical roadmap, and cross-functional coordination.

What they ask for

  • Strong proficiency in Python and working proficiency in C++.
  • Experience building data pipelines and familiarity with SQL and analytical workflows.
  • Deep Linux systems experience, including kernel, boot, or bare-metal infrastructure; understanding of networking, storage, and compute.
  • Experience setting technical vision and roadmap, aligning stakeholders, and briefing senior engineering leadership.

Nice to have

  • Performance engineering or profiling tools experience, such as perf, Perfetto, pprof, eBPF, NVIDIA Nsight Systems, or NVIDIA CUPTI.
  • Robotics or AV experience, particularly with NVIDIA DriveOS stack.

Pay

$152,000 and $228,000 USD base salary

Tools

Python, C++, Linux, SQL, Kubernetes, GCP, BigQuery, Grafana

AI focus

Use agentic tooling across the development lifecycle and apply judgment about when AI output needs extra scrutiny.

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First seen Oct 10, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)