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Software Engineer, Fault Response Verification

Nuro
Mountain View, California
Full Time
Posted October 25, 2025
$132k - $198k
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Job Description

A Software Engineer specializing in Fault Response Verification at Nuro will develop and validate fault detection, response, and recovery systems for autonomous vehicles, ensuring safety and reliability through system-level analysis, testing, and tooling development.

Key Responsibilities

  • Define system-level behavior requirements for fault response in autonomous driving systems
  • Develop metrics and validation tools to assess fault response and system performance
  • Conduct system-level stress testing and validation of autonomous software stack for fail-operational capabilities
  • Analyze failure modes and interdependencies within the autonomy architecture
  • Collaborate with development teams to extract performance indicators and ensure safety requirements are met
  • Implement automated evaluation tools for testing and log analysis related to fault handling

Requirements

  • At least 2 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 Python or C/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.
  • Experience in software development in task level or behavior level robotics planning.
  • Experience developing ML-based or heuristic-based evaluation methods to assess system performance.
  • Experience analyzing and managing FDIR (Fault Detection, Isolation, Recovery) 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 requirements.
  • Experience with adaptive stress testing or probabilistic software diagnostics.

Benefits & Perks

Compensation/salary range: between 132,300 and 198,450 USD annually, depending on experience, qualifications, education, location, and skills
Performance bonus
Equity
Competitive benefits package

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