Senior Software Engineer, Compute Infrastructure

Company: Nuro, Inc.
Location: Mountain View
Posted on: May 31, 2025

Job Description:

Senior Software Engineer, Compute InfrastructureWho We AreNuro exists to better everyday life through robotics. Founded in 2016, Nuro has spent eight years developing autonomous driving (AD) technology and commercializing AD applications. The Nuro Driver is our world-class autonomous driving system that combines AD hardware with our generalized AI-first self-driving software. Built to learn and improve through data, the Nuro Driver is one of the few driverless autonomous technologies on public roads today.Nuro has raised over $2B in capital from Fidelity, Bailie Gifford, T. Rowe Price, Google, and other leading investors. We've partnered with some of the world's most respected brands including Uber, FedEx, Domino's, Walmart, Kroger, and 7-Eleven.About the Role

We're looking for senior engineers to build/scale Nuro's large-scale computing infrastructure in the cloud/data center. This system is the foundation of many critical business applications throughout the company, including but not limited to machine learning data pipelines, data discovery, simulation, and time-series multimedia log processing. In this role, you'll be working on building a scalable, efficient and reliable system that bridges the gap between fundamental infrastructure and high-level job requests, and make large-scale computations more accessible to autonomy/other infrastructure engineers.About the Work

• Design and develop scalable, reliable frameworks: BATES to orchestrate and execute large-scale workloads in cloud and on-premise clusters.
• Collaborate with application teams throughout Nuro to provide robust, generic tools and APIs that accelerate their development of business critical applications.
• Optimize workload efficiency and turnaround time by deeply understanding and analyzing application context to identify inefficiencies and bottlenecks, prioritize tasks, and implement innovative solutionsAbout You
  
  • You have proven experience in building and developing large-scale distributed applications (e.g. Kubernetes).
  • You're self-motivated to identify opportunities for system improvement and drive positive change.
  • Ability to turn high-level requirements into a detailed, cohesive system design.
  • Willingness to deeply understand application logic across Nuro and a passion for going the extra mile.
  • You are highly collaborative and care about creating the best possible user experience.
  • You have start-up DNA: You have demonstrated an ability to thrive in the ambiguity of a dynamic, start-up environment or have the DNA to do so
  • You possess a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related field or equivalent experienceBonus Points
    • Experience with database technologies (e.g., Redis, SQL, NoSQL) and pub/sub systems.
    • Experience with cloud providers, particularly Google Cloud Platform or other major providers.
    • Experience with workflow management tools or map-reduce frameworks such as Apache Airflow, Buildkite, Ray, or Dataflow..
    • Experience with Linux system, e.g. CPU scheduler, memory management, file systems
    • Experience with data analysis, includes defining metrics, running A/B testing, and building metric dashboards.
    • Experience with real-time monitoring framework like Prometheus.
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