Senior Software Engineer, Nuro
Motion Planning
$167.2-250.8k
+ Annual performance bonus + Equity
Office located in Mountain View, CA
Autonomous delivery vehicle manufacturer
Open for applications
Autonomous delivery vehicle manufacturer
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$167.2-250.8k
+ Annual performance bonus + Equity
Office located in Mountain View, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To better everyday life through robotics.
Role
Who you are
- PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, mechanical/aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, with 3+ years of relevant industry experience or M.S. with 5+ years of relevant industry experience
- Proven ability to collaborate within and across teams
- Proven ability to lead technical development for safety critical planning systems for autonomous driving
- Demonstrated effective communication skills and ability to articulate ideas and timelines to cross-functional groups
- You also have at least one of the following:
- Research experience in one of: trajectory planning, motion planning, behavior planning, model predictive control, probabilistic robotics, optimal control, planning under uncertainty
- Experience designing, implementing, and refining novel planning algorithms on real-world robot platforms
- Strong C++ programming skills, algorithms and data structures knowledge, and software design experience
- Strong math (geometry, analysis, probability), physics (kinematics, dynamics), and analytical skills
What the job involves
- On our Motion Planning team, you'll play a significant role in writing production ready code that enables the Nuro to drive safely, comfortably and efficiently on public roads
- In this role you'll research and develop algorithms for motion planning, write performant C++ code and interface with all other teams in the behavior planning organization
- In this impactful role, you will collaborate with a best-in-class team of engineers to tackle hard problems and help advance the future of robotics to improve everyday lives
- Research and develop novel algorithms that solve the most challenging and exciting motion planning and trajectory optimization problems in autonomous driving, including optimization-based methods, sampling based methods and search based methods, planning under uncertainty, and combining data-driven techniques with traditional model-based methods
- Collaborate closely with engineers across prediction, perception, machine learning, mapping and localization, autonomy systems, and infrastructure
- Take responsibility for the core motion planning stack by leading feature development and improvements around safety, comfort and scalability of the motion planning code
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship for junior members of the behavior planning team
- Write robust, production-ready software to make our vehicle safe and predictable in complex driving scenarios
Our take
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.
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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
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Founders
Jiajun Zhu
(CEO)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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