Senior Autonomy Verification Engineer - Python/C++

ContentBuffer; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 176,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Nuro is seeking a Senior/Staff Systems Engineer in Autonomy Verification to ensure the Nuro Driver is safe for deployment across target ODDs and compliant with the rules of the road. You will own requirements, metrics design, and test strategy from concept to evidence.

You will collaborate with Autonomy Software, Simulation, Product, Legal, and Public Trust teams to develop robust acceptance criteria and verification workflows, quantifying coverage to support the Autonomy Safety Case.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical work experience in a relevant area with 3+ years of experience with development or validation of autonomous vehicles/robotic systems.
• Experience creating behavior requirements for SAE L2, L3, or L4 autonomous systems or other robotic systems to operate safely within its ODD.
• Experience with simulation and real-world testing of autonomous systems.
• Strong understanding of the autonomy architecture - sensing, localization, perception, prediction, behavior, and control modules interact.
• Hands-on software experience, with the ability to code in Python or C++.
• Highly collaborative in nature, with strong abilities to think and communicate analytically and effectively.

Responsibilities

• Create requirements for an autonomous system, ensuring safe operation within its ODD and compliance with the rules of the road.
• Design generalizable metrics and acceptance criteria to verify that the autonomous system satisfies these requirements, leveraging safety standards and methodologies.
• Propose and leverage diverse test strategies - synthetic and log simulation, on-road logs, closed-course testing, third-party accident reconstructions - to verify requirements.
• Collaborate closely with Behavior, Perception, Data Science, Product, Legal, and Public Trust teams to develop acceptance criteria for metrics and tests.
• Partner with simulation infrastructure and test integration teams to set up automated verification workflows.
• Quantify coverage of the tests for our ODD, ensuring simulation realism and relevance for deployment. Link the results from the tests as evidence to support the Autonomy Safety Case.

Skills

Python

C++

Autonomy verification

Simulation testing

Behavior requirements

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical communication

Job description

Nuro is seeking a Senior/Staff Systems Engineer in Autonomy Verification to ensure the Nuro Driver is safe for deployment across target ODDs and compliant with the rules of the road. You will own requirements, metrics design, and test strategy from concept to evidence.

You will collaborate with Autonomy Software, Simulation, Product, Legal, and Public Trust teams to develop robust acceptance criteria and verification workflows, quantifying coverage to support the Autonomy Safety Case.