Senior Software Engineer, Nuro

Behavior Planning / Contingency Planning

$167.2-250.8k

Plus performance bonus and equity

C++
Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Mountain View, CA

Nuro

Autonomous delivery vehicle manufacturer

Open for applications

Nuro

Autonomous delivery vehicle manufacturer

501-1000 employees

B2BLogisticsRoboticsElectric VehiclesComputer VisionAutomationDelivery

Open for applications

$167.2-250.8k

Plus performance bonus and equity

C++
Senior 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

  • PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, mechanical/aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, with 2+ years of relevant industry experience or M.S. with 4+ years of relevant industry experience
  • Strong Software Development Skills in C++ and experience with Test Driven Development
  • Proven track-record in designing and implementing Motion Planning Systems and Architectures for autonomous robots
  • Proven ability to collaborate within and across teams and derive best solutions from cross-functional interactions
  • Desire to work at the edge of Research and Development, bringing algorithms from research into production
  • Plus: Experience in embedded software development
  • Plus: Prior experience, working on safety-critical systems

What the job involves

  • The behavior and motion planning team at Nuro is responsible to generate and select optimal, safe and smooth trajectories across all scenarios the NuroDriver can encounter
  • As a behavior engineer for contingency and failover planning you will be researching and developing algorithms that ensure the availability and selection of safe trajectory options for the NuroDriver at any time
  • This includes the detection and reaction to unexpected events like system degradations, hardware degradations, changes in road conditions and out of distribution events
  • You will be closely collaborating with our motion, behavior and maneuver planning teams as well as the system and safety teams
  • Design and Implement state of the art algorithms for contingency maneuvers
  • Ensure robustness and reliability of the contingency planning framework
  • Collaborate with our testing and evaluation teams to ensure systematic testing and validation for contingency maneuvers
  • Work cross functionally with engineers across perception, mapping, localization and systems and safety on the appropriate contingency response reactions
  • 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

Otta's take

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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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