Job Description
The Fleet Technician at Nuro is responsible for maintaining and improving the hardware and software systems of autonomous vehicles, ensuring their safety, reliability, and performance through technical analysis, system development, and collaboration across teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and implement hardware and software system improvements for fleet vehicles
- Perform systems analysis to identify root causes of hardware and software interactions
- Develop and maintain Linux-based tools, scripts, and automation frameworks for fleet monitoring and diagnostics
- Contribute to architectural decisions for autonomous vehicle platforms
- Act as a technical lead for fleet-related initiatives and collaborate with cross-functional teams
- Establish and maintain technical standards, policies, and best practices
- Develop playbooks and documentation to support autonomous vehicle operations and system robustness
- Serve as a subject matter expert for complex fleet issues and incident investigations
- Support hardware integration, testing, and validation of autonomous vehicle systems
Requirements
- Bachelor's, Master's, or higher degree in any related field such as computer science, engineering, or equivalent experience
- Proficiency in Linux, including understanding and writing code
- Ability to perform hands-on hardware integration, testing, and validation to support autonomous vehicle systems and software-hardware interfaces
- Ability to analyze and resolve complex hardware-software interactions in robotic vehicle systems to support design improvements and system optimization
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Team-focused with a passion for continuous learning
- Ability to adapt to the changing needs of the business
- Clean driving record
- Experience in developing, maintaining, and implementing hardware and software system improvements that increase fleet reliability, safety, and performance
- Experience in performing advanced systems analysis to identify root causes of complex software and hardware interactions across autonomous platforms
- Experience in developing command line interface tooling, automation scripting, and Linux-based software tools, scripts, and frameworks to monitor, diagnose, and optimize fleet performance
- Experience in contributing to architectural decisions for current and future autonomous vehicle platforms
- Experience acting as a technical lead for fleet-related initiatives and collaborating with Software, Hardware, Safety, Operations, and Product teams
- Experience evaluating trade-offs and making independent recommendations on technical approaches, tooling, and system design
- Experience establishing and maintaining technical standards, policies, and best practices across fleet operations
- Experience developing playbooks and designing/documenting new engineering and operating processes to improve scalability and system robustness
- Experience authoring and maintaining technical documentation, design specifications, and decision records
- Experience serving as a subject matter expert regarding technical escalations for complex or novel fleet issues
- Experience providing guidance during systems-level incident investigations
- Experience documenting the lifecycle of vehicle assets in fleet management systems
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range between $72,660 and $97,720 depending on experience and qualifications
Annual performance bonus
Equity
Competitive benefits package
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