Senior Software Engineer, Behavior Planning
Mountain View, California$193.9k - $291.2k + bonusPosted 7mo ago
About the role
Senior Software Engineer on the behavior team focused on prediction and planning systems for the Nuro Driver to enable safe, driverless autonomy across multiple domains, from structured roads to unstructured areas, with production-quality software and cross-functional collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement novel robotics and machine learning technologies for the Nuro Driver.
- Work cross-functionally with engineers across behavior, perception, mapping, and ML research to advance the state-of-the-art in autonomous driving.
- Implement practical solutions with production-ready software, to deploy new technologies on real vehicle platforms in a safe, performant, and scalable way.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior members of the behavior team
Qualifications
- PhD or Masters Degree in robotics, computer science, mechanical/aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, mathematics, or related field.
- Robotics expertise in areas such as path planning, motion planning, trajectory generation, behavior planning, optimal control.
- Machine learning experience with techniques such as deep learning, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, transformers, and diffusion models.
- Experience in optimizing model performance through efficient processing, visualization, and analysis of large datasets.
- Strong software development skills and Python/C++ coding proficiency.
- Ability to collaborate within and across teams and derive best solutions from cross-functional interactions.
- Desire to work at the edge of research and development, bringing algorithms from research into production.
- Bonus: hands-on experience developing software for safety-critical systems, distributed training, or inference optimization.
Skills
Required:path planningmotion planningtrajectory generationbehavior planningPythonC++
Nice to have:optimal controldeep learning
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Nuro
Autonomy for all. All roads, all rides.
Driving the future of autonomy with the most scalable AI driver.
AutonomyAI driverDelivery robotsRobotaxiAutonomous vehicles
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