Staff Software Engineer, ML Data Infrastructure at Nuro

Who We Are 

Nuro exists to better everyday life through robotics. Founded in 2016, Nuro is a leading autonomous technology company with vehicles on road today in California and Texas. The company’s core technology is the Nuro Driver, an integrated autonomous driving system consisting of state-of-the-art, AI-first software and custom-built sense and compute hardware. The first commercial application of the Nuro Driver is autonomous goods delivery with our custom, electric, zero-occupant vehicles in partnership with some of the most recognized brands in the world including Uber and FedEx.

About the Role

Nuro takes a machine-learning-first approach to autonomous driving technology. In an ML-first system, the overall system performance depends heavily on the quantity and diversity of its training and evaluation data. 

The team plays a crucial role in the advancement of autonomous driving systems by creating a scalable and reliable data infrastructure. This infrastructure is designed to produce training and evaluation data derived from both on-road collected logs and simulation logs. Additionally, the team collaborates closely with system engineers to thoroughly validate the autonomous driving system before its deployment.

About the Work

• Design and develop unified, introspectable, large-scale batch and streaming data pipelines that can ingest and process data across a wide range of use cases relevant to evaluation.
• Create and implement a storage system capable of accommodating both the large volume and diverse range of evaluation and performance metrics.
• Construct intuitive dashboards and reports to present evaluation results, facilitating straightforward comparisons that highlight both improvements and regressions of the ML components and the overall system.
• Develop and maintain continuous testing and monitoring systems to guarantee the integrity and resilience of our data and associated data pipelines.
• Develop data mining tools with applied ML techniques to support data discovery needs from Autonomy including Perception, Behavior, and Mapping
• Develop data annotation tools to support first-party and third-party labeling workforce to provide high fidelity perception, mapping, and driving trajectory labels
• Scale data annotation labels with applied State-of-the-art ML techniques

About You

• You have a degree in BS, MS.c or Ph.D, plus 4 years of relevant work experience
• Strong proficiency in Python or similar languages
• Domain experience: Experience working with large-scale data and building scalable & reliable systems/data pipelines; ability to understand and design complex systems
• Engineering leadership: Experience setting team or project product and technical vision, timelines, and prioritization; being a Technical Lead, mentoring and support junior engineers
• Technical excellence: Ability and willingness to deep dive into implementation, driving technical standards and best practices across broader software organization
• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related field

Bonus Points 

• Strong proficiency in C++ or other high-performance low-level languages
• Strong knowledge of GCP, GCS, BigQuery, or PostgreSQL
• Knowledge of data engineering, and its tooling and best practices
• Knowledge of batch and streaming data processing, warehousing, and analytics solutions
• Experience working with large-scale distributed data systems
• Experience with system & framework design
• Experience with data workflow orchestration platforms

At Nuro, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. For this position, the reasonably expected pay range is between $202,350 and $303,050/year for the level at which this job has been scoped. Your base pay will depend on several factors, including your experience, qualifications, education, location, and skills. In the event that you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range would apply. This position is also eligible for an annual performance bonus, equity, and a competitive benefits package.

At Nuro, we celebrate differences and are committed to a diverse workplace that fosters inclusion and psychological safety for all employees. Nuro is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and expressly prohibits any form of workplace discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics.