- Robot type
- Autonomous Vehicle
- Location
- Mountain ViewCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Jun 1, 2026
Full-time
Principal Software Engineer, Onboard Infrastructure
Job description
Nuro believes self-driving vehicles are the most immediate and profound opportunity for AI to drive positive change in the physical world. Safer streets, more time for what matters, and easier access to the world around us, that’s why we’re building a universal autonomy platform: self-driving for all roads and all rides. Founded in 2016, Nuro is a physical AI company developing Level 4 autonomous driving technology for a wide range of vehicles, use cases, and markets. Powered by the Nuro Driver™, our universal autonomy platform enables the global mobility ecosystem to deploy autonomy at scale, from robotaxis and logistics fleets to personal vehicles.
Job requirements
- Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Robotics, or related field.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience building production-quality systems software.
- 5+ years of technical leadership experience, including leading complex projects, setting technical direction, and driving cross-team alignment.
- Strong proficiency in modern C++, with deep experience in concurrency, multi-threading, debugging, memory management, and performance optimization.
- Experience building reliable, high-performance software for robotics, embedded systems, autonomous systems, distributed systems, or other performance-critical platforms.
- Strong systems-level expertise, with the ability to reason across operating systems, device interfaces, runtime frameworks, and application-level workloads.
- Proven ability to diagnose complex performance, reliability, concurrency, and hardware/software integration issues.
- Ability to translate ambiguous requirements into scalable architecture and mentor engineers through design and execution.