Job brief: Staff Software Engineer, Performance

What JoRoute checked · Checked by JoRoute

• Listed on Nuro's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-11 (today); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-11.
• The apply link opens nuro.ai, the address Nuro's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: Not published
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Mountain View, California (HQ) · California - HQ
• Posted: 2025-02-21 · over 60 days ago

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What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Lead / staff. The title says "Staff".

Must have

• Nuro licenses its core technology, the Nuro Driver™, to support a wide range of applications, from robotaxis and commercial fleets to personally owned vehicles.
• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Robotics, or related field.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience building production-quality systems software.
• 5+ years of technical leadership experience, including leading complex projects, setting technical direction, and driving cross-team alignment.

Main duties

• Architect core onboard systems for embedded compute, sensor integration, runtime frameworks, inter-device communication, and distributed execution across cur…
• Lead system-level performance and reliability efforts, including latency reduction, resource efficiency, memory management, thread/process lifecycle manageme…
• Build foundational libraries, APIs, tools, and frameworks that enable autonomy and infrastructure teams to develop reliable, low-latency, high-performance so…
• Develop onboard distributed systems, including high-performance communication between compute nodes, module orchestration, monitoring, logging, diagnostics, …
• drive root cause, mitigation, and long-term prevention.

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for software engineer jobs in Mountain View, CA: $213k a year (67 listings, 4 employers). This listing does not publish pay to compare.
• Across Nuro's 97 open listings, 70% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Nuro hires

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