Hiring: Principal Software Engineer, Onboard Infrastructure Company: Nuro Location: Mountain View, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-17 11:17:17 Target Skills & Keywords : C++, Data Pipeline, Embedded Systems, Linux, Machine Learning About the job Experience: •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. Required Skills: •Define and drive technical direction for Nuro’s onboard infrastructure across Device Platform, Performance, and Onboard Systems. •Architect core onboard systems for embedded compute, sensor integration, runtime frameworks, inter-device communication, and distributed execution across current and future vehicle platforms. •Lead system-level performance and reliability efforts, including latency reduction, resource efficiency, memory management, thread/process lifecycle management, observability, automated testing, and continuous validation. •Build foundational libraries, APIs, tools, and frameworks that enable autonomy and infrastructure teams to develop reliable, low-latency, high-performance software. •Develop onboard distributed systems, including high-performance communication between compute nodes, module orchestration, monitoring, logging, diagnostics, and large-scale autonomy/sensor data pipelines. •Diagnose complex, hard-to-reproduce failures across software, hardware, sensors, compute, networking, and autonomy workloads; drive root cause, mitigation, and long-term prevention. •Partner with autonomy, hardware, safety, validation, operations, and suppliers to define requirements, evaluate and integrate next-generation platforms, and ensure safe, reliable deployment. •Translate ambiguous product, safety, and autonomy needs into scalable technical architecture; align teams on design direction, execution plans, interfaces, and long-term platform strategy. Qualifications: •Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Robotics, or related field. •Strong proficiency in modern C++, with deep experience in concurrency, multi-threading, debugging, memory management, and performance optimization. •Strong systems-level expertise, with the ability to reason across operating systems, device interfaces, runtime frameworks, and application-level workloads. •Proven ability to diagnose complex performance, reliability, concurrency, and hardware/software integration issues. •Demonstrated capacity to translate ambiguous requirements into scalable architecture and mentor engineers through design and execution. •Master’s degree or PhD in CS, EE, Computer Engineering, Robotics, or a related field. •Deep knowledge of Linux, device drivers, computer architecture, kernel behavior, and communication protocols such as Ethernet, PCIe, USB, SPI, I2C, or UART. Compensation: •Competitive benefits and rewards package Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!