Senior Staff Systems Engineer, Autonomy Sensing and Perception
NuroPosted April 21, 2025
Mountain View, California
Electric Vehicles$167,200 - $303,050
Full Time
Job Description
The role involves contributing to the development and safety of Nuro's autonomous driving system by focusing on sensing, compute hardware, localization, and perception modules, ensuring their robustness and reliability. The position requires collaboration with cross-functional teams to define requirements, design architectures, and validate performance while adhering to industry safety standards.
Responsibilities
- •Lead system-level requirements definition, architecture design, integration strategy, and validation for autonomy sensors.
- •Drive system safety activities for autonomy sensors and compute based on ISO 26262 and ISO 21448.
- •Collaborate with Sensor HW teams on sensor selection, characterization, integration, and defining safety methodologies.
- •Partner with software teams to define interfaces, performance metrics, failure modes, and validation strategies.
- •Support and maintain sections of the Autonomy Safety Case related to sensors, localization, and perception.
- •Define and quantify test coverage requirements for simulation, HIL, and real-world testing environments.
- •Perform root cause analysis for complex cross-functional issues identified during integration and testing.
- •Provide technical leadership and guidance to cross-functional teams, potentially mentoring junior engineers.
- •Stay abreast of industry trends and advancements in autonomous vehicle sensors, localization techniques, and safety standards.
Requirements
- •Strong understanding of autonomy systems, particularly sensors LiDAR, camera, radar, IMU, localization techniques, and perception algorithms.
- •Proven hands-on experience in systems engineering for complex hardware software systems.
- •Deep understanding of vehicle systems and their interaction with the autonomy stack.
- •Demonstrated experience working on safety-critical systems and applying safety standards like ISO 26262 or ISO 21448 including activities like HARA, FMEA, FTA, safety concept development.
- •Experience with requirements definition, management e.g., Jama, architecture design, integration, and validation.
- •Ability to read code in C and write code in Python for analysis, tooling, and test automation.
- •Strong communication skills - both verbal and written.
Benefits
- •Compensation/salary range: between 167,200 and 303,050
- •Annual performance bonus
- •Equity
- •Competitive benefits package
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