# Staff Software Engineer, Performance

Who We Are Nuro is a self-driving technology company on a mission to make autonomy accessible to all. Founded in 2016, Nuro is building the world’s most scalable driver, combining cutting-edge AI with automotive-grade hardware. Nuro licenses its core technology, the Nuro Driver™, to support a wide range of applications, from robotaxis and commercial fleets to personally owned vehicles. With technology proven over years of self-driving deployments, Nuro gives the automakers and mobility platforms a clear path to AVs at commercial scale, empowering a safer, richer, and more connected future. About the Role As a Staff / Senior Staff Technical Lead on Onboard Performance, you will help define and build the high-performance, highly reliable foundation of the Nuro Driver. This role requires deep technical leadership across sensor and compute integration, onboard runtime systems, distributed execution, and autonomy software performance. You will architect hardware-agnostic device interfaces, inter-device communication pipelines, runtime APIs, and onboard software platforms that enable Nuro’s autonomy stack to run safely and efficiently across current and future vehicle platforms. You wil

- **Id**: 4052334
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/nuro-staff-software-engineer-performance>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Mountain View, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2025-02-21T05:15:42Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T02:24:36Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 627
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6510
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Delivery, Autonomous Driving, Smart Mobility

## Company

- **Id**: 22290
- **Name**: Nuro
- **Domain**: nuro.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/nuro>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 74
- **Open postings**: 94
- **Ghost share**: 0.426
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 46
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 258080
- **Max**: 387370
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 387370

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CUDA** — Optional: yes
- **Linux** — Optional: yes
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 627

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T02:24:36Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 48 · green card filings: 15; Filings 12m: 48

## Liveness

- **Score**: 13
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.464
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 627
- **Expected fill days**: 46
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T03:17:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 387370
- **Is top pay**: yes

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