Nuro · 14 hours ago
Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Behavior Fault Architecture and Detection Validation
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$176K/yr - $320K/yr
3+ years expNuro is a company focused on autonomous driving capabilities, and they are seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to enhance their fault architecture and detection validation. The role involves collaborating with various teams to identify faults in autonomous software, design fault handling criteria, and contribute to the development of test methodologies for system validation.
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 for Behavior and Routing
Define requirements for fault handling throughout the autonomy software architecture at the interface between and within software components
Drive fault-centric validation concepts from prototype to production to test
Support the development of tools and data engineering frameworks that can inject faults into the autonomy stack and interpret results from curated amounts of simulation, on-road, closed course testing to assess mission capabilities and safety
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 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
You must have at least 3 years of experience in multiple of the following (not necessarily in industry): Software development in robotics Behavior, motion planning, or routing
Experience with Linux or Unix computer systems engineering such as communication protocols, designing fault-tolerant systems, and atomicity and coordination of concurrent activities for complex autonomous software
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 faults
Identifying emergent behavior in a safety-critical complex system including interactions between modules
End-to-end functional decomposition, defining physical/logical architectures, allocating functionality, and reliability analysis of safety-critical complex systems via STPA or other hazard analysis techniques
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
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