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Director of Engineering, Eval Platform

Nuro
Mountain View, California
Full Time
Posted January 30, 2026
$258k - $387k
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Job Description

The role involves leading the development and management of Nuro's simulation and evaluation platform for autonomous vehicles, focusing on enabling rapid iteration, rigorous validation, and data-driven decision-making to ensure safety and performance of driverless technology.

Key Responsibilities

  • Define and own the technical vision and roadmap for the Eval Platform, including simulation, evaluation infrastructure, and software quality operations
  • Lead, mentor, and grow a multidisciplinary engineering organization, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement
  • Build and scale simulation and evaluation capabilities for rapid iteration and rigorous validation of autonomy systems
  • Own the autonomy evaluation and validation platform, ensuring its reliability, scalability, and trustworthiness
  • Represent the Eval Platform at the executive level, communicating progress, risks, and readiness

Requirements

  • Deep technical expertise in building simulation systems and evaluation platforms for large scale machine learning and robotics systems.
  • Strong understanding of autonomy and validation, and how to build high quality tools for these use cases.
  • Proven experience leading and scaling high impact engineering organizations, including managers and senior individual contributors.
  • Ability to translate complex technical signals into clear, actionable insights for senior leadership.
  • Experience defining and owning the technical vision and roadmap for simulation, evaluation infrastructure, and software quality operations.
  • Experience building and scaling simulation and evaluation capabilities that support both rapid iteration and rigorous validation use cases.
  • Ability to lead, mentor, and grow a multi-team organization of managers and senior individual contributors, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.
  • Experience representing technical platforms at the executive level, clearly communicating tradeoffs, progress, risks, and readiness.
  • Comfort operating in a fast-paced, high ambiguity environment.

Benefits & Perks

Compensation/salary range between $258,000 and $387,000 depending on experience and qualifications
Annual performance bonus
Equity
Competitive benefits package

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