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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Behavior Fault Architecture and Detection Validation

Nuro
Mountain View, California
Full Time
Posted January 28, 2026
$176k - $320k
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Job Description

A Senior Staff Software Engineer specializing in behavior fault architecture and detection validation, responsible for developing fault handling, validation methods, and system robustness for autonomous driving software within a cross-disciplinary systems engineering team.

Key Responsibilities

  • Identify faults within the autonomous software stack and refine fault handling criteria
  • Design fault and fail-operational architecture for autonomous systems
  • Implement test methodologies to verify and validate fault detection and system resilience
  • Develop tools and frameworks to inject faults and analyze system responses during testing
  • Define requirements for fault handling and stress testing across the autonomy software architecture
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to extract metrics and performance indicators for system readiness
  • Support development of automated evaluation tools for test logs and contingency satisfaction

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of technical work experience in robotics software or a relevant area.
  • Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree candidate in Computer Science, Math, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Physics, or a related field.
  • Strong programming and algorithmic problem solving skills in C and C++.
  • Experience working in a team with strong software engineering practices.
  • Highly collaborative with strong abilities to think and communicate analytically and effectively.
  • Self-starter and fast learner with a passion for acquiring new skills and approaching unstructured problems from first principles.
  • At least 3 years of experience in multiple of the following areas: software development in robotics, behavior, motion planning, or routing.
  • Experience with Linux or Unix computer systems engineering, including communication protocols, designing fault-tolerant systems, and atomicity and coordination of concurrent activities for complex autonomous software.
  • Experience analyzing and managing Fault Detection, Isolation, and Recovery (FDIR) for the software stack on semi-autonomous or autonomous vehicles or equipment.
  • Experience defining requirements using data-driven and first-principle techniques.
  • Experience implementing test coverage for faults.
  • Experience identifying emergent behavior in safety-critical complex systems, including interactions between modules.
  • Experience with end-to-end functional decomposition, defining physical and logical architectures, allocating functionality, and conducting reliability analysis of safety-critical complex systems via STPA or other hazard analysis techniques.
  • Experience with adaptive stress testing or probabilistic software diagnostics.

Benefits & Perks

Salary range between $176,400 and $319,720 depending on experience and qualifications
Annual performance bonus
Equity options
Competitive benefits package

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