Technical Lead Software Engineer, Routing
Nuro · Mountain View, California (HQ)
About this role
**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. 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. Nuro has raised over $2B in capital from Uber, NVIDIA, Google, Softbank, Fidelity, T. Rowe Price, and other leading investors. --- **About the Role** The Routing Team crafts vital services that ensure the Nuro Driver™ reaches destinations safely and efficiently. You’ll continuously refine our routing engine to calculate more efficient routes, deliver highly accurate ETAs, and manage scalable traffic for every journey—adapting as our business/geolocation expands and mapping infrastructure evolves. --- **About the Work** - Build and scale backend systems and onboard modules for the Routing team, including: - Designing microservices - Optimizing routing algorithms - Understanding road network graphs - Building monitoring and analytics infrastructure - Optimizing the deployment pipeline - Partner with product, strategy, and operations teams to design and build new user experiences, and help define product strategy and the roadmap. --- **About You** - **Technical excellence** - 8+ years of experience building and scaling real-time server-side applications - Experience with large-scale, complex algorithm problems; balance correctness and performance - Strong storage fundamentals across relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL), non-relational (BigTable, Cassandra, Redis, etc.), and data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, etc.) - Familiarity with RPC frameworks (gRPC, Thrift) and pub/sub systems (Kafka, Cloud PubSub, Celery, etc.) - Experience with cloud providers (GCP, AWS, etc.) - Experience with Docker and Kubernetes (or willingness to learn) - Broad technical skills, love learning new technologies, and quick to ramp - Passion for developer tooling—help engineers troubleshoot, debug, and profile applications - Strong judgment on tradeoffs (quick-and-dirty vs. scalable approaches) - User-focused mindset; collaborate closely with product and design - Great communicator across PMs, UXRs, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders - Impact-driven—care deeply about work that improves the lives of millions --- **Bonus Points** - Experience with routing algorithms - Proficiency in C++ - Experience training and running ML models (training/inferencing) - Experience with map data and graph data structures - Experience with robotics - Experience with ETA modeling --- **Compensation & Benefits** Base pay range (scoped level): **$213,480 – $319,720**. Base pay depends on experience, qualifications, education, location, and skills. Eligible for an annual performance bonus, equity, and a competitive benefits package. --- **Equal Opportunity** Nuro celebrates differences and is committed to a diverse workplace with inclusion and psychological safety. Nuro is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination based on legally protected characteristics. #LI-DND
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