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Key Responsibilities
Nuro is looking for a Director of Systems Engineering to lead a high-caliber team responsible for defining, analyzing, validating, and improving the performance of the Nuro Driver across complex hardware and software systems.
Systems Engineering sits at the center of how we turn ambitious autonomy goals into clear technical requirements, measurable performance targets, and verified system behavior on public roads. This team partners deeply across behavior, sensing, perception, prediction, planning, hardware, safety, test, and product to ensure the NuroDriver™ performs reliably in the real world and can scale across vehicle platforms and commercial use cases.
In this role, you will lead teams responsible for translating critical use cases into system requirements, conducting rigorous analyses and trade studies, informing architectural decisions, and ensuring our verification strategy establishes that the system meets the bar required for safe, scalable deployment. You will be expected to operate with strong technical depth, excellent judgment, and the leadership ability to build, coach, and raise the bar for a high-performing engineering team.
Requirements
You are a technical leader who can operate across abstraction levels, from high-level system architecture and safety-critical requirements down to detailed performance analysis and verification strategy. You are comfortable leading through complexity, making tradeoffs with imperfect information, and partnering across disciplines to drive high-quality decisions.
7+ years of systems engineering experience, with demonstrated delivery of complex systems against internal or external milestones.
5+ years of direct management experience, with a track record of building and leading high-performing engineering teams.
Experience managing managers and scaling teams
Strong systems engineering fundamentals, including requirements definition, system decomposition, verification and validation methods, and performance analysis.
Experience working on complex hardware and software systems, ideally in autonomy, robotics, automotive, aerospace, defense, or another safety-critical domain.
Strong technical judgment and the ability to make pragmatic architectural and prioritization tradeoffs.
Experience partnering across software, hardware, test, safety, and product teams to drive system-level outcomes.
A bachelor’s degree in a relevant engineering or technical field such as Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, Controls, Aerospace Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.