Senior Software Engineer, Autonomy Behavior Testing

Job overview

Compensation is $160,360–$291,150 per year. The Senior Software Engineer, Autonomy Behavior Testing role is onsite in Mountain View, CA. in the structured listing; the posting states a base pay range of $160,360–$291,150 per year, plus eligibility for an annual performance bonus, equity, and benefits. The role supports Nuro’s Systems Engineering team and its work validating autonomous driving capabilities. The engineer builds and improves automated verification and validation pipelines, triage workflows, and testing tools. This work produces test results that help demonstrate system safety and inform autonomy development.

What you'll do

• Design and implement automated test pipelines and tooling
• standardize testing modalities through unified triage workflows
• lead root-cause analyses and identify testing gaps with Systems engineers
• turn system and pipeline gaps into technical requests for partner teams
• validate solutions with partner teams
• provide technical guidance, code review, and documentation.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior software engineer

autonomy behavior testing

verification and validation

mountain view ca

nuro

$160,360–$291,150/year

python

c++

automated testing

autonomous vehicles

systems engineering

safety case

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Annual performance bonus eligibility, equity, and a competitive benefits package.

Why this role

Requires 5+ years of relevant technical experience, including 3+ years testing autonomous vehicles or robotic systems, and hands-on Python or C++ experience. Large-scale simulation or test automation pipeline experience is required.

About the employer

Nuro is hiring for this role. Industry: Engineering Services. Sector: 54.