Senior Software Engineer, Behavior Evaluation - Insights

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

Our NuroDriver will need to encounter innumerable scenarios successfully to realize the benefits of robotics in everyday life. The mandate of the Behavior Eval team is to build comprehensive simulation-driven test suites that provide quick, actionable insights to accelerate development across the various components of our ML-first Behavior stack (e.g., prediction, planning, controls). 

As a vital member of the Behavior Evaluation team, you will play a pivotal role in advancing the development of our ML-first Behavior stack by designing and implementing comprehensive simulation-driven test suites that will expose NuroDriver through a myriad of scenarios. “Good” behavior has many aspects (safety, compliance, comfort), whose definitions may differ based on the context the NuroDriver is in, which poses a significant challenge for defining the right KPIs that guide development. Our testing platform exposes the NuroDriver to thousands of different scenario-contexts in simulation, and more importantly, presents the simulation results and KPIs across the various contexts so that developers can easily understand key performance trade-offs at both the aggregate and scene-level via interactive visualizations. 

If you love solving challenging new problems with a mindset of deriving practical scalable solutions that Nuro can depend on, come join us!

About the Work

• Drive the overall user experience of our evaluation product across the key developer workflows used by the Autonomy teams to guide the NuroDriver.
• Understand user testing needs and guide them to use our evaluation platform. Improve user experience around test launch points targeting key workflows.
• Ensure that users can easily leverage scene-discovery tooling and metrics to easily create custom tests.
• Make the simulation-test results available for fast interactive web-based data-exploration framework in plots, graphs, and aggregates.
• Provide useful insights that analyze NuroDriver performance captured by these metrics through various simulations via interactive visualizations. These insights will guide the development of NuroDriver.
• Coordinate with infrastructure teams to ensure that simulation-based tests are reliable, and are utilizing infra-resources efficiently by our users.
• Develop metrics that quantify the safety of the NuroDriver in interactive scenarios where it is interacting with various road users (i.e. vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists). These metrics will be used in millions of miles of virtual tests, ultimately informing key policy decisions.

About You

• Bachelors with 3+ years of industry experience / Masters with 2+ years of industry experience
• Strong programming skills in Python or C++. Strong system design skills.
• Experience collaborating with various engineering teams and product managers to deliver business value.
• Strong desire to evaluate behavior performance and validate safety. Curiosity to learn about the behavior/autonomy stack
• Experience with implementing fast and effective data visualization.
• Basic 2D geometric reasoning, kinematics, or linear algebra

Bonus Points (Optional)

• Previous experience with interactive data visualization dashboards.
• Experience working in robotics/AV testing.

At Nuro, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. For this position, the reasonably expected pay range is between $167,200 and $250,800/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. If 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.