Nuro
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Senior Software Engineer, Collision Avoidance

Location
Mountain View, California (HQ)
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Today

About the Role

Safety and redundancy is one of the key requirements to Nuro Driver™. In this role, you will contribute to our Parallel Autonomy System and Collision Detection System to protect our passengers and other road participants from the unknown unknowns. Here, you'll be challenged to provide utmost accuracy while working with exacting latency requirements, where millisecond counts.

About You

  • BS in relevant engineering fields, such as CS, EE, or applied mathematics.
  • Strong coding skills in C++.
  • Experience deploying software in robotics products.
  • Willingness to sweat the details and strive for precision in your work.
  • Additional preferred experience:
  • Deploying ML models in edge environments.
  • Developing state estimation algorithms for tracking applications.
  • Optimizing architectures to explore the accuracy vs. compute tradeoff.

Pay and benefits

At Nuro, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. For this position, the reasonably expected pay range is between $193,930.00 and $291,150.00/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.

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 Work

  • This team tackles a wide range of problems: ML-based perception across all sensor modalities including audio, estimating object velocity and acceleration with high accuracy, onboard latency optimization, and developing tooling for large scale data curation.
  • Partner with a tight-knit group of engineers who focus on collision avoidance.
  • Participate in the design and implementation of a system that spans perception, planning, and control.
  • Contribute to designing the validation methodology in order to validate a system that is required to perform at extremely high recall and precision on exceedingly rare events.
Equal opportunity and legal notices

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. #LI-DNP

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From Nuro's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 12, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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