Senior C++ Engineer — Onboard Autonomy Platform

Nuro; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 194,000 - 291,000; Full time

Job summary

Nuro seeks a senior C++ software engineer to improve onboard Driver software, partnering with module owners and infrastructure teams on design, boundaries, contracts, testing, and performance within a production-scale codebase.

You will lead cross‑module workstreams, specify failure modes, optimize resources, and drive architecture reviews. The role blends hands-on coding with practical system decomposition in Mountain View, CA.

Qualifications

• Strong modern C++ and Linux systems fundamentals.
• Significant experience developing and maintaining production C++ software in a large codebase.
• Experience independently leading ambiguous systems-software projects from design through cross-team adoption.
• Knowledge of module decomposition, interface contracts, failure boundaries, testability, and resource partitioning.
• Strong production debugging, testing, observability, and verification discipline.
• Effective written and verbal communication with stakeholders and code reviews.
• 5+ years of relevant production software-engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated scope and impact.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead a prioritized cross‑module workstream from problem definition through implementation and rollout.
• Design explicit application behavior for dependency failures and safe degradation.
• Evaluate module decomposition, interfaces, and dependency structure to modernize C++ implementations.
• Assess compute, memory, data-flow, and scheduling impacts of changes with performance teams.
• Write architecture proposals with alternatives, ownership, and migration plans; drive joint reviews.
• Review new or changed module boundaries and interfaces with engineers; promote engineering patterns.

Skills

Modern C++

Linux systems

Concurrency

Inter-process communication

Performance

Failure handling

Production debugging

Code reviews

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Bazel

Clang tooling

Protobuf

Job description

Nuro seeks a senior C++ software engineer to improve onboard Driver software, partnering with module owners and infrastructure teams on design, boundaries, contracts, testing, and performance within a production-scale codebase.

You will lead cross‑module workstreams, specify failure modes, optimize resources, and drive architecture reviews. The role blends hands-on coding with practical system decomposition in Mountain View, CA.