Nuro
Technical Lead Manager, Risk Aware Planning
$235K–$352K
Mountain View, California (HQ) +1 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 15, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, California (HQ)
Nuro HQ - Mountain View, CA - Experience
- 5+ years of industry experience; experience leading technical projects and mentoring or managing engineers.
- Education
- BS/MS/PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, EE/ME/AE, or a related quantitative field.
About the job
Leads development and deployment of robotics-based safety protections and solutions for real-world autonomy issues in Nuro’s autonomous driving system.
What you'll do
- Own the core logic and software implementation for robotics-based safety protections in the autonomy stack.
- Lead real-world autonomy issue resolution, including root cause analysis, solution design, implementation, testing, and deployment.
- Lead and grow a technical team, collaborating with AI modeling, evaluation, systems, and operations teams.
What they ask for
- BS/MS/PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, EE/ME/AE, or a related quantitative field.
- 5+ years of industry experience building safety-critical motion planning, decision making, trajectory optimization, or controls systems for real-world robots or autonomous vehicles.
- Demonstrated experience deploying robotics behavior into real-world operation and diagnosing and fixing field issues.
- Strong C++; solid math and physics; fluency in optimization-based, sampling-based, and search-based planning, and in combining data-driven with model-based methods.
Pay
$235,030 and $352,290 USD base salary
Tools
C++
AI focus
Integrates safety protections and solutions with the data-driven autonomy system; works cross-functionally with AI modeling teams.
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