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Senior Software Engineer, Performance Tooling and Infrastructure

Nuro · Mountain View, California (HQ)

Posted about 3 months ago

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This role has been open
82 days
Nuro's roles stay open a median of 82 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
3% of Nuro's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Nuro
high
110 stale, 0 reposted of 110 open
Hiring momentum
139 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-24

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About this role

As a Senior Software Engineer focused on Performance Tooling and Infrastructure at Nuro, you'll develop and maintain a performance simulation platform that integrates software and hardware for autonomous vehicles. Your role involves overseeing job orchestration, ensuring platform reliability, building data pipelines, and collaborating across teams to enhance performance metrics and infrastructure. You'll also guide system-level configurations and drive strategic planning for benchmarking across hardware generations.

Our read on this posting2.4out of 5
benefits
2/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

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What you need

  • 5+ years of industry software engineering experience
  • Strong proficiency in Python and working proficiency in C++
  • Experience building data pipelines, ingestion, transformation, storage, and visualization
  • Deep comfort with Linux systems, including kernel configuration and debugging
  • Experience setting technical vision and roadmap for a project or platform
  • Understanding of AI as a core part of the engineering workflow

Nice to have

  • Experience with performance engineering, especially around tooling integration
  • Experience in robotics or AV, particularly with NVIDIA DriveOS stack

What you get

  • Base pay range between $183,000 and $275,000
  • Annual performance bonus
  • Equity
  • Competitive benefits package

Worth weighing

  • High-ownership, high-autonomy role on a small team
  • Role requires balancing long-term architecture with short-term delivery
  • No specific mention of remote work options or flexibility

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Listed by Nuro on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-24. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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