Software Engineer, Performance Tooling and Infrastructure New Grad
Mountain View, CA$153k - $175kFull-timePosted 3w ago
About the role
Nuro is building a performance tooling platform to validate real-time performance on actual robot compute hardware. The role owns the infrastructure from bare-metal OS to data analysis and visualization, ensuring release velocity of the autonomy stack through a high-ownership, high-autonomy position on a small team.
Responsibilities
- Benchmarking Infrastructure: Develop and maintain the job orchestration layer that schedules, executes, and validates autonomy performance benchmarks across a fleet of physical bench-top systems — integrated into CI/CD pipelines as merge-blocking and release-blocking quality gates.
- Platform Reliability & Observability: Build monitoring, alerting, and self-healing automation for the bench fleet. Proactively identify systemic risks — capacity bottlenecks, hardware degradation patterns, infrastructure single points of failure — before they become outages. Track utilization, failure rates, and capacity trends to ensure the platform scales ahead of organizational demand.
- Performance Data Pipelines: Design and build end-to-end data pipelines that capture fine-grained performance metrics (CPU/GPU utilization, memory bandwidth, E2E latency, scheduling jitter) from bench-top runs, process them at scale, and surface actionable insights through dashboards and automated regression detection.
- Statistical Analysis & Experimentation: Work with Data Science to develop rigorous experimentation methodology for performance results from non-deterministic autonomy workloads — including variance analysis, significance testing, and regression detection.
- Bare-Metal & OS Platform: Guide the SRE team through the OS and system-level configuration of bench hardware — including Linux kernel tuning, boot infrastructure, networking, and hardware bring-up — ensuring the platform faithfully reproduces production robot compute behavior.
- Drive Platform & Allocation Strategy: Own the planning lifecycle for the benchmarking fleet across hardware generations. Partner with engineering and program leadership to negotiate hardware allocation, model utilization scenarios under real-world constraints, and present data-backed trade-off recommendations — balancing testing coverage, user throughput, cost, and SLA commitments against finite physical resources.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Hardware Engineering, NPI, SRE, Perception, Behavior, and Data Science teams to translate their performance analysis needs into robust, self-service infrastructure.
Qualifications
- Experience: ~1+ years of industry software engineering experience.
- Software Engineering: Strong proficiency in Python and working proficiency in C++. You write clean, testable, well-documented code and care about long-term maintainability.
- Data Engineering: Experience building data pipelines, ingestion, transformation, storage, and visualization. Familiarity with SQL and analytical workflows.
- Systems & Infrastructure: Deep comfort with Linux systems — you've configured kernels, debugged boot issues, written systemd units, or managed bare-metal infrastructure. You understand networking, storage, and compute at a level beyond "it just works."
- Technical Leadership: Experience setting technical vision and roadmap for a project or platform, driving alignment across multiple stakeholders. You've independently identified the cross-functional partners needed to unblock and deliver, and you've briefed senior engineering leadership on trade-offs and recommendations.
- AI-Native: You treat AI as a core part of your engineering workflow, not an occasional shortcut — you use agentic tooling (e.g., Claude Code) across the development lifecycle and you understand the boundaries of when AI output demands extra scrutiny versus when it accelerates you.
- Bias for Action: Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where you need to balance long-term architecture with short-term delivery.
Skills
Required:PythonC++Data pipelinesSQLLinux systemsTechnical leadership
Benefits
- Annual performance bonus
- Equity
- Competitive benefits package
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Nuro
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