Nuro

Technology

SoftwareEngineer,Performance

$160–241k Mountain View, California, United States
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Software Engineer, Performance at Nuro. Skills: Performance analysis, Latency reduction, Resource efficiency. Analyze AV software performance. Profile AV software performance”

What You'll Achieve.

Ensure vehicles react quickly; Ensure vehicles react safely; Drive latency reduction; Drive resource efficiency

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

System fundamentals, Proficiency in C++, Expertise in computer architecture, Expertise in operating systems, Experience in highly concurrent environment, Experience in multi-processor environment, Experience in multi-threaded environment, Experience with performance optimizations, Experience with software porting, Experience with x86 architectures, Experience with ARM architectures, Experience with GPU architectures, Experience with SoC architectures, Experience with perf, Experience with VTune, Experience with BPF, Experience with Nvidia Nsight Systems

Nice to Have

GPU programming experience, Low level driver optimization experience, Nvidia DriveOS experience, ROS experience

What You'll Do.

Analyze AV software performance

Profile AV software performance

Debug AV software performance

Monitor AV software performance

Optimize AV software performance

Design systems for memory management

Develop systems for memory management

Design tools for memory management

Develop tools for memory management

Design systems for thread prioritization

Develop systems for thread prioritization

Design tools for thread prioritization

Develop tools for thread prioritization

Design systems for process lifetime management

Develop systems for process lifetime management

Design tools for process lifetime management

Develop tools for process lifetime management

Design systems for thread lifetime management

Develop systems for thread lifetime management

Design tools for thread lifetime management

Develop tools for thread lifetime management

Define system-level architecture

Encourage best practices

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work with engineers; Cross-functional teams

Full Job Description

Who We Are Nuro is a self-driving technology company on a mission to make autonomy accessible to all. Founded in 2016, Nuro is building the world’s most scalable driver, combining cutting-edge AI with automotive-grade hardware. Nuro licenses its core technology, the Nuro Driver™, to support a wide range of applications, from robotaxis and commercial fleets to personally owned vehicles. With technology proven over years of self-driving deployments, Nuro gives the automakers and mobility platforms a clear path to AVs at commercial scale, empowering a safer, richer, and more connected future. About the Role We are looking for talented engineers to join our Performance team to optimize the performance of Nuro’s AV software, ensuring our vehicles can react quickly and safely to the world around them. The team builds systems and tools for continuous performance analysis and drives latency reduction and resource efficiency efforts to ensure the autonomy teams can implement an autonomy stack that is efficient and performant for the current and future generations of the Nuro Driver. About the Work Analyze, profile, debug, monitor, and optimize the performance of AV software Design and develop systems and tools for memory management, thread prioritization, process/thread lifetime management Work with engineers from different teams to define the system-level architecture and building blocks Build core libraries and APIs to enable autonomy engineers to write high-performance code Drive and encourage best practices within the team and the rest of the organization About You Strong system fundamentals and proficiency in C++ Expertise in computer architecture and operating systems Experience developing in a highly concurrent, multi-processor, and multi-threaded environment Experience with performance optimizations and software porting across a variety of compute architectures - like x86, ARM, GPUs, SoCs Experience with performance profiling tools such as perf, VTune, BPF, Nvidia Ns

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