Senior/staff Software Engineer, Labeling Platform

Nuro Nuro · Robotics · CA · Offboard Infrastructure

Nuro is seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to build and operate a highly available, fault-tolerant data labeling platform for their autonomous driving systems. This role involves productionizing core infrastructure, improving label quality through data-driven metrics, and applying ML research to automate the labeling lifecycle. The ideal candidate will have experience in designing and operating scalable distributed data systems, Python/C++/Go programming skills, and leadership experience.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build highly available, fault-tolerant systems for data annotation
  2. Productionize core infrastructure for our state-of-the-art autonomy system
  3. Elevate label quality by implementing data-driven metrics and monitoring
  4. Apply cutting-edge ML research to automate and optimize the data labeling lifecycle

Skills

Required

  • B.Sc. or M.Sc. degree
  • 5+ years of relevant industry experience
  • Designing, building, and operating highly scalable and reliable distributed data systems
  • Leading cross-team projects
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Defining technical visions, creating roadmaps, and setting timelines and prioritization
  • Strong problem-solving skills
  • Python, C++ or Go programming skills

Nice to have

  • Experience building reliable large scale distributed systems
  • Experience with observability, monitoring and incident management
  • Experience applying ML research in real world applications
  • Experience leading teams, designing and executing team roadmaps

What the JD emphasized

  • millions of points of sensor data
  • millions of scenes weekly
  • highly scalable and reliable distributed data systems

Other signals

  • ML-first approach to autonomous driving
  • High-quality labeled data is crucial for system performance
  • Comprehensive labeling stack with workflow execution, infrastructure, and annotation tools
  • Handling millions of points of sensor data weekly
  • Reliable and scalable labeling infrastructure