Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Mountain View, CA$176.4k - $264kfull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
Senior Embedded Software Engineer at Nuro, focused on safety-critical embedded controllers that connect the Nuro Driver to the vehicle. Involves design, implementation, verification, and integration of embedded C software across RTOS, drivers, middleware, and vehicle interface layers, with hands-on bring-up on multiple vehicle platforms and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement and test embedded C software for safety-critical multicore automotive microcontrollers, spanning RTOS, device drivers, scheduling and bootloader, middleware, and application components.
- Integrate the Nuro Driver with new vehicle platforms: define and implement CAN and Ethernet interfaces with OEM ECUs, adapt actuator and body-control interfaces, and validate them on bench and in vehicle.
- Take part in hands-on device and vehicle bring-up, prototyping and debugging on multiple vehicle platforms, from first power-on to autonomous driving.
- Build and maintain the team's verification infrastructure: unit tests, hardware-in-the-loop benches and vehicle test procedures.
- Work within an ISO 26262 development process: define software requirements from system safety requirements, then implement and verify them with full traceability.
- Collaborate daily with systems, safety, hardware, controls and autonomy engineers, and with OEM and supplier partners, from definition through verification.
Qualifications
- B.S. or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a closely related field.
- 3+ years of industry experience developing embedded software in C, including work on a real-time operating system.
- Solid computer science fundamentals: data structures, concurrency and algorithm design.
- Working knowledge of microcontroller internals and peripherals, with depth in at least one of device driver development, CAN or automotive Ethernet, bootloaders and software update, embedded security, or vehicle-level integration and test.
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills, clear written and spoken communication, and a track record of working well with engineers from other disciplines.
- Comfortable at the bench with debug probes, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers and CAN tools. You enjoy finding out why hardware and software disagree.
Skills
Required:Embedded CRTOSCAN / automotive EthernetDevice driversDebugging / bench bring-up
Nice to have:ISO 26262
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Nuro
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