Nuro · 9 hours ago
Software Engineer, Behavior Verification
Mountain View, California (HQ)
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$132K/yr - $198K/yr
3+ years expNuro is a self-driving technology company aiming to make autonomy accessible to all. The Software Engineer, Behavior Verification will work closely with various teams to define system-level behavior requirements, implement metrics for assessing requirement violations, and contribute to risk quantification in autonomous driving capabilities.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Autonomous VehiclesRoboticsTransportation
Responsibilities
Dive into the system-level implications of Nuro’s autonomy architecture and software to understand inter-dependency of failure modes with respect to the fault response
Define requirements for fault response with decomposition through the autonomy software and hardware architecture
Drive fault-centric validation concepts from prototype to production to test
Interpret results from curated amounts of simulation, on-road, closed course testing to assess mission capabilities and safety with respect to faults
Work closely with autonomy developers to extract high-impact metrics and performance indicators that will test our robots’ readiness to drive autonomously on public roads in the event of degraded states of software
Contribute to tooling for automated evaluation of issues in test logs that check for satisfaction of contingency requirements
Qualification
Required
3+ years of technical work experience in robotics SW or relevant area
Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree candidate in Computer Science, Math, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Physics, or related field
Strong programming and algorithmic problem solving skills in Python or C++/C
Technically fluent and experienced working in a team with strong software engineering practices
Highly collaborative in nature with strong abilities to think and communicate analytically and effectively
Self starter and fast learner - you should be passionate about picking up new skills and approaching unstructured problems from first principles
At least 2 years of experience in multiple of the following (not necessarily in industry): Software development in task level or behavior level robotics planning
Experience developing ML-based or heuristic-based evaluation methods to assess system performance
Analyzing and managing FDIR (fault detection, isolation, recovery) for the software stack on semi-autonomous or autonomous vehicles or equipment
Defining requirements using data-driven and first-principle techniques
Implementing test coverage for requirements
Adaptive stress testing or probabilistic software diagnostics
Benefits
Annual performance bonus
Equity
Competitive benefits package
Company
Nuro
Nuro is a robotics company specializing in the development of autonomous driving technologies.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$2.34BKey Investors
Disney AcceleratorTiger Global ManagementT. Rowe Price
2025-08-21Series E· $97M
2025-04-09Series E· $106M
2024-04-06Secondary Market
Leadership Team
Jiajun Zhu
Co-Founder and Co-CEO
Dave Ferguson
Co-Founder
Recent News
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