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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