Software Engineer, Routing

About the role

Nuro believes self-driving vehicles are the most immediate and profound opportunity for AI to drive positive change in the physical world. Safer streets, more time for what matters, and easier access to the world around us, that's why we're building a universal autonomy platform: self-driving for all roads and all rides. Founded in 2016, Nuro is a physical AI company developing Level 4 autonomous driving technology for a wide range of vehicles, use cases, and markets. Powered by the Nuro Driver™, our universal autonomy platform enables the global mobility ecosystem to deploy autonomy at scale, from robotaxis and logistics fleets to personal vehicles. With years of real-world deployment experience and a flexible, partner-led business model, Nuro is working toward a future where millions of autonomous vehicles powered by our technology help make everyday life safer, easier, and more connected. Nuro has raised over $2B in capital from Uber, NVIDIA, Google, Softbank, Fidelity, T. Rowe Price, and other leading investors. The Routing Team crafts vital services that ensure Nuro Driver™ reaches destinations safely and efficiently. We continuously refine our routing engine to calculate more efficient routes, deliver highly accurate ETAs, and manage scalable traffic for every journey, adapting as our business / geolocation expands and mapping infrastructure evolves.

What you'll do

You will work on building and scaling both the backend systems and onboard modules for the Routing team. This includes everything from designing microservices, optimizing our routing algorithms, understanding road network graphs, building monitoring and analytics infrastructure, optimizing our deployment pipeline, and more.

You will work with product, strategy, and operations teams to design and build new, magical user experiences, and define our product strategy and roadmap.

You will partner with data science to implement and iterate on routing models in production, ensuring algorithms perform reliably at scale.

You will design and implement core routing infrastructure components that handle complex urban environments and diverse vehicle types.

You will optimize systems for low-latency decision making, ensuring real-time responsiveness in dynamic traffic conditions.

You will build robust monitoring and observability tools to track routing performance and surface anomalies proactively.

You will collaborate with operations to improve fleet efficiency and routing policies based on real-world operational data.

You will contribute to the evolution of our mapping infrastructure, integrating new data sources and improving map accuracy.

You will write high-quality, maintainable code and conduct thorough code reviews to uphold engineering standards.

You will participate in on-call rotations to support production routing services and drive rapid incident resolution.

Requirements

You have at least 2+ years of building and scaling realtime server-side applications.

You have worked on large-scale complex algorithm problems, and know how to balance correctness and performance.

You know how to choose the right storage technology for the job. You have experience with a wide-range of databases, including relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL), non-relational (BigTable, Cassandra, Redis, etc), and data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, etc).

You know your way around RPC frameworks (gRPC, Thrift) and pubsub systems (Kafka, Cloud PubSub, Celery, etc).

You have extensive experience working with cloud providers (GCP, AWS, etc).

You have experience working with Docker & Kubernetes, or are willing to learn.

You have a wide-range of technical skills, you love learning new technologies and you're a quick learner.

You have a passion for making lives easier for developers. You love working on tooling that will help engineers more easily troubleshoot, debug, and profile their applications.

You have the knack for making the right tradeoffs. You know when it makes sense to take the quick-and-dirty vs the scalable approach. You can move fluently between the two.

You care about users. You like to work closely with product and design to build the best product for our consumers.

You are a great communicator, and you regularly chat with PMs, UXRs, other engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders on product requirements and designs.

You are impact-driven. You care deeply that your work makes a significant impact on the lives of millions of people.

Nice to have

Experience with routing algorithms.

Experience with map data and graph data structures.

You are proficient in C++ programming.

Experience in training and inferencing ML models.

Experience with robotics perception algorithms.

Experience with distributed systems debugging.

Experience with cost optimization in cloud infrastructure.

Experience with monitoring and alerting systems.

Experience with container orchestration and infrastructure as code.

Practical notes

This role is based in Mountain View, California (HQ).

Engagement: Full-time.

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