Senior Software Engineer, Collision Avoidance

Job overview

The Senior Software Engineer, Collision Avoidance role is onsite in San Francisco, CA. The stated base pay range is $193,930–$291,150 per year; the position is also eligible for an annual performance bonus, equity, and benefits. The role supports Nuro’s collision avoidance work on its autonomous driving platform, intended to help make streets safer. The engineer contributes to parallel autonomy and collision detection systems that protect passengers and other road users. The work spans perception, planning, control, and validation, with a focus on accurate performance under strict latency requirements and rare-event conditions.

What you'll do

• Contribute to ML-based perception across sensor modalities, object velocity and acceleration estimation, onboard latency optimization, and large-scale data-curation tools
• partner with collision-avoidance engineers
• design and implement systems spanning perception, planning, and control
• help develop validation methods for high-recall and high-precision performance on rare events.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior software engineer

collision avoidance

nuro

san francisco ca

autonomous driving

robotics

c++

machine learning

perception

planning and control

latency optimization

$193,930–$291,150/year

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

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

Why this role

C++ coding skills and experience deploying software in robotics products are required; edge ML deployment, tracking state-estimation algorithms, and accuracy-versus-compute optimization are preferred experience.

About the employer

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