Senior/Staff Systems Engineer, Autonomy Verification

Nuro; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 176,400 - 319,720; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual performance bonus

Equity

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

Nuro is seeking a Senior/Staff Systems Engineer in Mountain View to ensure the Nuro Driver's safety for deployment. You'll verify system compliance and collaborate with diverse teams for effective testing and metrics design.

Your role involves creating requirements, designing test strategies, and overseeing automated workflows. Candidates should have 5+ years of relevant experience, a deep understanding of autonomous systems, and proficiency in Python or C++. Join Nuro's mission to make autonomy accessible to all!

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical work experience with 3+ years in autonomous systems.
• Experience creating behavior requirements for SAE L2, L3, or L4 systems.
• Strong understanding of autonomy architecture.
• Hands-on software experience in Python or C++.

Responsibilities

• Create requirements for autonomous systems ensuring safe operation.
• Design metrics and acceptance criteria to verify system requirements.
• Propose diverse test strategies to verify requirements.
• Collaborate with various teams for acceptance criteria development.
• Partner with teams to set up automated verification workflows.

Skills

Technical work experience in relevant area

Development or validation of autonomous vehicles/robotic systems

Creating behavior requirements for autonomous systems

Simulation and real-world testing

Collaboration and communication skills

Coding in Python or C++

Job description

Who We Are

Nuro is a self-driving technology company on a mission to make autonomy accessible to all. Founded in 2016, Nuro is building the world’s most scalable driver, combining cutting‑edge AI with automotive‑grade hardware. Nuro licenses its core technology, the Nuro Driver™, to support a wide range of applications, from robotaxis and commercial fleets to personally owned vehicles. With technology proven over years of self‑driving deployments, Nuro gives the automakers and mobility platforms a clear path to AVs at commercial scale, empowering a safer, richer, and more connected future.

About The Role

As a Senior/Staff Systems Engineer working on Autonomy Verification, you are responsible for verifying that the Nuro Driver is safe to deploy in our target ODD and complies with the rules of the road. This requires prior experience with the development or validation of autonomous systems, and a collaborative nature to work closely with a variety of teams across Nuro: Autonomy Software, Simulation, Product, and Operations. You will have end‑to‑end ownership from requirements definition, metrics design, and test strategy development.

About The Work

• 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.

About You

• 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 — how 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.

Bonus Points

• Background in autonomous vehicles ideally with L4 AV deployment.
• Prior experience building computational models for driving behavior or ML‑based metrics for behavior evaluation.
• Familiarity with safety standards and methodologies like STPA, ISO‑21448, ISO 8800.
• Experience developing a safety case or compiling evidence supporting a safety case in a structured manner.

At Nuro, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. For this position, the reasonably expected base pay range is between $176,400 and $319,720 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. In the event that 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.