Software Engineer, Nuro

Engineering Productivity

$125.4-188.1k

+ Equity

Python
Go
C++
Mid level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Mountain View, CA

Nuro

Autonomous delivery vehicle manufacturer

Job no longer available

Nuro

Autonomous delivery vehicle manufacturer

501-1000 employees

B2BLogisticsRoboticsElectric VehiclesComputer VisionAutomationDelivery

Job no longer available

$125.4-188.1k

+ Equity

Python
Go
C++
Mid level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Mountain View, CA

501-1000 employees

B2BLogisticsRoboticsElectric VehiclesComputer VisionAutomationDelivery

Company mission

To better everyday life through robotics.

Role

Who you are

  • Inefficiency bothers you. The thought of taking a frustrating process and making it elegant sounds appealing
  • You can flexibly build new tools end to end to address constantly changing developer needs
  • You are passionate about software engineering best practices
  • You know how to build scalable and reliable infrastructure pipelines
  • You are highly collaborative and care about creating the best possible user experience
  • You have strong software engineering skills in Python, C++ and/or Go
  • You hold a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in computer science, software engineering, a related field, and 3-4 years of relevant industry experience

What the job involves

  • Identifying and addressing pain points in the engineering process
  • Creating new tools and infrastructure to improve efficiency
  • Educating engineers on best practices
  • Leveraging cutting-edge technologies to boost productivity
  • Collaborate with engineers across Nuro to identify pain points in the engineering process. Define, instrument, analyze, communicate, and monitor batch/stream metrics related to engineering velocity and system health
  • Creatively address day to day developer inefficiencies using the best methods available . This can mean making new internal tools, extending existing tools, or introducing new tools to the company
  • Build scalable infrastructure that continuously merges, builds, tests, and releases code while balancing coverage, speed, and cost. This is a challenging problem with no out of the box solution, especially due to the complexities of Nuro’s machine learning and hardware tests. Solving this requires employing state of the art techniques in areas like build optimization, intelligent test selection, and culprit finding
  • Own and improve fundamental libraries e.g. APIs/clients to interact with complex systems. This includes managing code dependencies (including third party libraries) and managing the structure of Nuro’s codebase
  • Educate developers on best practices and new tools
  • Leverage Generative AI to boost engineering productivity

Otta's take

Xav Kearney headshot

Xav Kearney

CTO of Otta

Nuro offers custom-built autonomous vehicles for the delivery of physical goods, rather than people. Its vehicles have a distinctive, futuristic, design that has not only made the vehicles noticeable from a marketing point of view, but, has also made its vehicles stand out to other road users, improving safety.

Nuro is an exciting addition to the autonomous vehicle landscape. Without a passenger inside the vehicle, it has been able to sidestep some of the safety issues that have plagued other autonomous vehicle brands. Additionally, the company has landed several high-profile partners, including Uber, Walmart, Chipotle, and Kroger.

With home deliveries at an all-time high, many companies are looking for ways to get goods to customers’ homes as fast as possible. Low-cost, efficient services such as Nuro's offering are becoming increasingly attractive. The company is turning its focus to commercializing and scaling the production of its third-generation vehicle at a new facility in Southern Nevada as it hopes to expand its services across the US.

Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-29% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Nov 2021

$600m

SERIES D

Nov 2020

$500m

SERIES C

Total funding: $2.1bn

Company benefits

  • Free Caltrain pass and commuter benefits
  • Company stock options
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health insurance

Company values

  • Earn it - We seek and expect excellence and are not afraid of hard work
  • 1% better everyday - We continuously focus on improving both as individuals and as a company
  • Find a way - We embrace uncertainty and thrive on solving the hardest problems
  • Act now - We trust our team's judgment—everyone is a problem solver
  • One team - Nuro only succeeds if we are all working toward a common goal

Company HQ

Mountain View, CA

Founders

After an MA in Computer Science at the University of Virginia, Jiajun worked as Principal Software Engineer at Google for over 8 years. He left this role in August 2016 to co-found Nuro with Dave.

Dave Ferguson

(President)

Experienced Robotics Engineer with stints at Google (Computer Vision and Machine Learning Lead) and Intel (Senior Research Scientist). PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University.

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