Job Description
A Senior Staff Systems Engineer responsible for verifying the safety and compliance of Nuro's autonomous driving system through requirements definition, testing strategies, and collaboration across teams to ensure safe deployment within specified operational conditions.
Key Responsibilities
- Create requirements for autonomous system safety within its operational design domain (ODD) and compliance with traffic rules.
- Design metrics and acceptance criteria to verify autonomous system performance and safety.
- Develop and implement diverse test strategies, including simulation, on-road logs, and closed-course testing, to verify system requirements.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop acceptance criteria and automate verification workflows.
- Quantify test coverage and ensure simulation realism to support the Autonomy Safety Case.
Requirements
- 5 years of technical work experience in a relevant area with 3 years of experience with development or validation of autonomous vehicles robotic systems
- Experience creating behavior requirements for SAE L2, L3, or L4 autonomous systems or other robotic systems to operate safely within its ODD
- Experience with simulation and real-world testing of autonomous systems
- Strong understanding of the autonomy architecture - how sensing, localization, perception, prediction, behavior, and control modules interact
- Hands-on software experience, with the ability to code in Python or C
- Create requirements for an autonomous system, ensuring safe operation within its ODD and compliance with the rules of the road
- Design generalizable metrics and acceptance criteria to verify that the autonomous system satisfies these requirements, leveraging safety standards and methodologies
- Propose and leverage diverse test strategies - synthetic and log simulation, on-road logs, closed-course testing, third-party accident reconstructions - to verify requirements
- Collaborate closely with Behavior, Perception, Data Science, Product, Legal, and Public Trust teams to develop acceptance criteria for metrics and tests
- Partner with simulation infrastructure and test integration teams to set up automated verification workflows
- Quantify coverage of the tests for our ODD, ensuring simulation realism and relevance for deployment
- Link the results from the tests as evidence to support the Autonomy Safety Case
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range between $176,400 and $319,720
Annual performance bonus
Equity
Competitive benefits package
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