Software Engineer, Performance
NuroPosted May 2, 2025
Mountain View, California
$138k - $207k
Full Time
Job Description
The role involves optimizing the performance of autonomous vehicle software by analyzing, profiling, and developing systems to improve efficiency, latency, and resource management, ensuring safe and effective operation of Nuro's driverless technology.
Responsibilities
- •Analyze, profile, debug, monitor, and optimize the performance of autonomous vehicle software
- •Design and develop systems and tools for memory management, thread prioritization, and process thread lifetime management
- •Collaborate with engineering teams to define system architecture and building blocks for high-performance autonomous systems
- •Build core libraries and APIs to enable engineers to write efficient, high-performance code
- •Drive and promote best practices for performance optimization within the team and organization
Requirements
- •Proficiency in C programming language with strong system fundamentals
- •Experience in computer architecture and operating systems
- •Experience developing in a highly-concurrent, multi-processor, and multi-threaded environment
- •Experience with performance optimizations and software porting across a variety of compute architectures such as x86, ARM, GPUs, and SoCs
- •Experience with performance profiling tools such as perf, VTune, BPF, Nvidia Nsight Systems
- •At least 2 years of relevant industry experience
- •Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
Benefits
- •Base salary range between $138,000 and $207,000 depending on experience and qualifications
- •Annual performance bonus
- •Equity in the company
- •Competitive benefits package
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