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Principal Software Engineer, Onboard Infrastructure

Nuro· Fleet Infrastructure
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Mountain View, California$258k - $387kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Principal software engineer role focused on defining and building the high-performance, reliable onboard infrastructure for Nuro Driver, spanning Device Platform, Performance, and Onboard Systems with cross-functional leadership and collaboration across autonomy, hardware, safety, validation, and operations.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive technical direction for onboard infrastructure across Device Platform, Performance, and Onboard Systems.
  • Architect core onboard systems for embedded compute, sensor integration, runtime frameworks, inter-device communication, and distributed execution across current and future vehicle platforms.
  • Lead system-level performance and reliability efforts, including latency reduction, resource efficiency, memory management, thread/process lifecycle management, observability, automated testing, and continuous validation.
  • Build foundational libraries, APIs, tools, and frameworks that enable autonomy and infrastructure teams to develop reliable, low-latency, high-performance software.
  • Develop onboard distributed systems, including high-performance communication between compute nodes, module orchestration, monitoring, logging, diagnostics, and large-scale autonomy/sensor data pipelines.
  • Diagnose complex, hard-to-reproduce failures across software, hardware, sensors, compute, networking, and autonomy workloads; drive root cause, mitigation, and long-term prevention.
  • Partner with autonomy, hardware, safety, validation, operations, and suppliers to define requirements, evaluate and integrate next-generation platforms, and ensure safe, reliable deployment.
  • Translate ambiguous product, safety, and autonomy needs into scalable technical architecture; align teams on design direction, execution plans, interfaces, and long-term platform strategy.
  • Mentor engineers, establish engineering best practices, and raise the technical bar across Onboard Infrastructure and partner teams.

Qualifications

  • 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.

Skills

Required:Mastery of modern C++Robotics/embedded systems experienceSystems-level engineering

Benefits

  • Annual performance bonus, equity, and a competitive benefits package.
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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