Staff Software Engineer, Routing

Nuro; California (MO); On-site; USD 213,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Equity

Benefits package

Job summary

Nuro is building a universal autonomy platform and is seeking an experienced engineer to join the Routing Team. You will help design and scale backend systems and onboard modules, refining routing algorithms and ETAs for safe and efficient journeys.

You will collaborate with product, strategy, and operations to define roadmaps and deliver high-impact developer tooling, monitoring, and deployment improvements across cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building and scaling realtime server-side applications.
• Experience with large-scale complex algorithm problems balancing correctness and performance.
• Experience with a wide range of databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, BigQuery, Snowflake, Redis, etc).
• Familiarity with RPC frameworks (gRPC, Thrift) and pub/sub systems (Kafka, Cloud Pub/Sub, Celery, etc).
• Extensive experience with cloud providers (GCP, AWS).
• Experience with Docker & Kubernetes or willingness to learn.
• Strong collaboration with product and design to ship user-centric tooling.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale backend systems and onboard modules for the Routing team.
• Design microservices, optimize routing algorithms, and manage road network graphs.
• Develop monitoring/analytics infrastructure and improve deployment pipelines.
• Collaborate with product, strategy, and operations to shape roadmap.

Skills

Realtime server-side

Routing algorithms

C++ programming

Docker

Kubernetes

RPC frameworks

Cloud platforms

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

BigQuery

Snowflake

Redis

Cassandra

BigTable

Kafka

Cloud Pub/Sub

Celery

Job description

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, that’s why we’re building a universal autonomy platform: self-driving for all roads and all rides.

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.

With years of real-world deployment experience and a flexible, partner-led business model, Nuro is working toward a future where millions of autonomous vehicles powered by our technology help make everyday life safer, easier, and more connected. 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 Nuro Driver™ reaches destinations safely and efficiently. We 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

• You will work on building and scaling both the backend systems and onboard modules for the Routing team. This includes everything from designing microservices, optimizing our routing algorithms, understanding road network graphs, building monitoring and analytics infrastructure, optimizing our deployment pipeline, and more.
• You will work with product, strategy, and operations teams to design and build new, magical user experiences, and define our product strategy and roadmap.

About You

• Technical excellence.
• You have 8+ years of experience building and scaling realtime server-side applications.
• You have worked on large-scale complex algorithm problems, and know how to balance correctness and performance.
• You know how to choose the right storage technology for the job. You have experience with a wide-range of databases, including relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL), non-relational (BigTable, Cassandra, Redis, etc), and data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, etc).
• You know your way around RPC frameworks (gRPC, Thrift) and pubsub systems (Kafka, Cloud PubSub, Celery, etc).
• You have extensive experience working with cloud providers (GCP, AWS, etc).
• You have experience working with Docker & Kubernetes, or are willing to learn.
• You have a wide-range of technical skills, you love learning new technologies and you’re a quick learner.
• You have a passion for making lives easier for developers. You love working on tooling that will help engineers more easily troubleshoot, debug, and profile their applications.
• You have the knack for making the right tradeoffs. You know when it makes sense to take the quick-and-dirty vs the scalable approach. You can move fluently between the two.
• You care about users. You like to work closely with product and design to build the best product for our consumers.
• You are a great communicator, and you regularly chat with PMs, UXRs, other engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders on product requirements and designs.
• You are impact-driven. You care deeply that your work makes a significant impact on the lives of millions of people.

Bonus Points

• Experience with routing algorithms
• You are proficient in C++ programming
• Experience in training and inferencing ML models.
• Experience with map data and graph data structures
• Experience with robotics
• Experience with ETA modeling

At Nuro, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. For this position, the reasonably expected base pay range is between $213,480 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.

• annual performance bonus
• equity
• 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. #LI-CD1