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Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Training Runtime Performance

Nuro
Mountain View, California
Full Time
Posted December 23, 2025
$235k - $352k
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Job Description

A Staff Software Engineer specializing in ML infrastructure, focusing on optimizing training efficiency and input pipelines for self-driving model development, enabling faster and more reliable autonomous vehicle technology.

Key Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with ML practitioners and infrastructure teams to integrate optimized input pipelines into workflows
  • Detect, diagnose, and resolve performance bottlenecks in training, evaluation, and model distillation workflows
  • Optimize training performance and resource utilization for consistent, reproducible model training outcomes
  • Enhance input data pipelines to maximize runtime goodput and minimize accelerator idle time
  • Champion best practices for robust, reproducible, and debuggable ML experimentation

Requirements

  • A B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field or equivalent experience.
  • At least 4 years of professional experience in ML infrastructure, distributed training, or ML systems engineering, scaling models on multi-node, multi-accelerator clusters.
  • Understanding of training, evaluation, and distillation workflows for billion-parameter models.
  • Expert-level knowledge in distributed systems and remote Python.
  • Strong skills in profiling, debugging, and optimizing quantized workloads.
  • Experience with ML compilers and strategies to reduce startup overhead.
  • Familiarity with model distillation and efficient inference workflows.
  • Ability to collaborate with ML practitioners and infrastructure teams to understand needs and integrate optimized input pipelines into workflows.
  • Ability to detect, diagnose, and resolve performance bottlenecks across training, evaluation, and model distillation workflows.
  • Ability to optimize training performance, resource utilization, and ensure consistent, reproducible model training outcomes.
  • Ability to optimize input data pipelines to increase runtime goodput, ensuring accelerators maximize their time on task and minimize idle cycles.
  • Championing best practices for robust, reproducible, and debuggable ML experimentation.

Benefits & Perks

Compensation/salary range between $235,030 and $352,290 depending on experience and qualifications
Annual performance bonus
Equity in the company
Competitive benefits package

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