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# Senior Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure Platform at Nuro

- **Company:** Nuro
- **Location:** Mountain View, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-08-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://nuro.ai/careersitem?gh_jid=8122477

## Job description

## Who We Are

Nuro believes self-driving vehicles are the most immediate and profound opportunity for AI to drive positive change in the physical world. Safer streets, more time for what matters, and easier access to the world around us, that’s why we’re building a universal autonomy platform: self-driving for all roads and all rides.

Founded in 2016, Nuro is a physical AI company developing Level 4 autonomous driving technology for a wide range of vehicles, use cases, and markets. Powered by the Nuro Driver™, our universal autonomy platform enables the global mobility ecosystem to deploy autonomy at scale, from robotaxis and logistics fleets to personal vehicles.

With years of real-world deployment experience and a flexible, partner-led business model, Nuro is working toward a future where millions of autonomous vehicles powered by our technology help make everyday life safer, easier, and more connected.

Nuro has raised over $2B in capital from Uber, NVIDIA, Google, Softbank, Fidelity, T. Rowe Price, and other leading investors

## About the Role

Nuro takes a machine-learning-first approach to autonomous driving, and the ML Infrastructure team builds and operates the infrastructure that makes that possible. We own the systems that train the models at the core of the Nuro Driver™ - from distributed GPU training and closed-loop reinforcement learning, to the workflows, orchestration, observability, and cost management that keep the fleet running efficiently.

Our work sits directly on the critical path of autonomy development. When a training run stalls, when a pipeline silently regresses, or when GPU utilization slips, it shows up in how fast the rest of the company can ship. We care as much about reliability and operational maturity as we do about raw scale.

## About the Work

- Contribute to Nuro’s training infrastructure, spanning multi-generation accelerators, and multi-cluster scheduling and orchestration.
- Design and operate large-scale data pipelines - batch and streaming ingestion, storage layout, and high-throughput data generation and storage.
- Design and develop agentic-first ML workflows - data-to-training-to-evaluation pipelines that are introspectable, reproducible, and easy for autonomy teams to run and extend.
- Own reliability for critical training and release pipelines: instrument them, define meaningful alerting, and build the on-call and incident-response practices that let the team catch regressions.

## About You

- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related field, plus 3+ years of relevant work experience.
- Willingness to deep-dive into implementation and to raise the technical and operational standards of the broader engineering organization.
- A demonstrated ownership mindset: you drive systems to operational maturity e.g. through monitoring, alerting, runbooks.
- Strong proficiency in Python (and comfort with C++, Go or a similar systems language).
- Hands-on experience running production infrastructure on Kubernetes.
- Solid distributed-systems fundamentals and the ability to reason about performance, failure modes, and reliability across a complex system.

Bonus Points

- Strong working knowledge of GCP.
- Experience with building large-scale data generation pipelines.
- Experience with Kubernetes-native orchestration for ML workloads.
- Depth in GPU / distributed training internals, including NCCL and collective communication.
- Familiarity with GPU and training observability tooling and using it to diagnose real bottlenecks.
- A track record of driving down infrastructure cost while improving reliability.

At Nuro, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. For this position, the reasonably expected base pay range is between $193,930 and $291,150 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.

## About Nuro

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Nuro develops a universal autonomy platform, licensing its AI-first self-driving system (the Nuro Driver) to automakers and mobility providers to power robotaxis, commercial fleets, and personal vehicles.
- **Entity Type**: Private
- **Headquarters**: Mountain View, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Jiajun Zhu (Co-Founder & Co-CEO) and Dave Ferguson (Co-Founder & Co-CEO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Autonomous driving technology, robotics, mobility solutions
- Target customers (B2B, B2C, Enterprise, SMB, etc.): B2B – automakers and mobility platforms (e.g., Uber, Lucid)
- Mission or purpose statement: "To make autonomy accessible to all."

## Products & Services
- **[Nuro Driver™]**: An AI-first, vehicle-agnostic self-driving system comprising proprietary hardware and generalized self-driving software. It is designed to be cost-efficient and scalable across various vehicle platforms (robotaxis, commercial fleets, personal vehicles). Validated with 5+ years of driverless deployments and over 1.7 million autonomous miles with zero at-fault incidents. [nuro.ai](https://www.nuro.ai/technology)
- **[Nuro Toolkit]**: A customizable SDK offering industry-leading autonomy developer tools, infrastructure, and remote assistance, enabling partners to integrate and manage Nuro’s autonomy technology. [nuro.ai](https://www.nuro.ai/technology)
- **Universal Autonomy Platform**: The overarching platform that combines the Nuro Driver and Nuro Toolkit, designed to be licensed by automakers and mobility providers to scale autonomy responsibly. [nuro.ai](https://www.nuro.ai/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of over $2.1 billion (as of its Series D in 2021).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investors include SoftBank Vision Fund, Greylock, Gaorong Capital, and others. Partners include Uber, Lucid Motors, and various auto and mobility companies. [nuro.ai](https://www.nuro.ai/)
- **Growth Signals**: The company has successfully deployed its technology across three US states (California, Texas, Nevada) since 2020. It is expanding globally with offices in Shenzhen, Tokyo, Toronto, and a planned office in Munich. It recently announced a collaboration with Uber and Lucid, signaling a move into the ride-hailing and personal vehicle markets. [nuro.ai](https://www.nuro.ai/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proven Safety Record**: Over 1.7 million autonomous miles driven with zero at-fault incidents, backed by industry-first operating permits and exemptions from regulators. [nuro.ai](https://www.nuro.ai/technology)
- **Vehicle-Agnostic Platform**: The Nuro Driver is designed to be adaptable across different vehicle platforms, making it a flexible solution for various partners.
- **Founding Team from Waymo/Google**: Both co-founders were key engineers on Google’s self-driving car project (now Waymo), bringing deep expertise in perception, machine learning, and robotics.
- **Vision for Artificial General Robotics (AGR)**: The company’s long-term vision extends beyond autonomous driving to applying its AI infrastructure and tooling to other physical domains, positioning it as a broader robotics platform.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling Autonomy through Partnerships**: Moving from its initial focus on last-mile delivery to licensing its technology to major mobility and automotive partners (e.g., Uber, Lucid) to power robotaxis and personal vehicles.
- **Global Expansion**: Establishing engineering and operational offices in key markets (US, China, Japan, Canada, Germany) to support global deployment.
- **Cost-Efficient, Scalable AI**: Developing a hardware and software stack that uses automotive-grade, cost-efficient components to enable mass-market adoption.

## Why Work Here
- **Impactful Mission**: Employees work on technology that directly aims to make streets safer, reduce emissions, and give people more time.
- **World-Class Team & Culture**: The company emphasizes a culture of "One team," "Find a way," and "1% better every day," with a focus on continuous improvement and collaboration. [nuro.ai](https://www.nuro.ai/careers)
- **Strong Benefits Package**: Includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, fertility benefits, parental leave, flexible PTO, mental health and physical fitness benefits, 401k, and RSUs (equity). [nuro.ai](https://www.nuro.ai/careers)
- **Global & Diverse Work Environment**: Offices in Mountain View (HQ), San Francisco, Santa Clara, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Shenzhen, Tokyo, Toronto, and a planned office in Munich. The company is committed to DEI. [nuro.ai](https://www.nuro.ai/careers)
- **Early Career & Internship Programs**: Offers structured programs for students and early-career professionals to work on real products and make a measurable impact. [nuro.ai](https://www.nuro.ai/careers)

## Sources
1. [nuro.ai - Company Page](https://www.nuro.ai/company)
2. [nuro.ai - Homepage](https://www.nuro.ai/)
3. [nuro.ai - Technology Page](https://www.nuro.ai/technology)
4. [nuro.ai - Careers Page](https://www.nuro.ai/careers)
5. [LinkedIn - Nuro](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nuro-inc.)

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