Software Engineer, Performance Tooling and Infrastructure (New Grad)

Job overview

The Software Engineer, Performance Tooling and Infrastructure (New Grad) role is onsite in Mountain View, CA; compensation is $153,000–$175,000 per year at the scoped level, with annual performance bonus, equity, and a competitive benefits package. The engineer supports Nuro's Performance Simulation Platform, which validates autonomy software and hardware performance on robot compute systems. The role develops and evolves benchmarking infrastructure, data pipelines, and observability systems that help engineering teams assess performance changes before releases. Its work supports reliable testing and release velocity across Nuro's autonomy stack.

What you'll do

• Develop and maintain benchmark job orchestration across physical bench systems and integrate it with CI/CD quality gates
• build monitoring, alerting, and self-healing automation
• create performance data pipelines and dashboards
• work with Data Science on experimentation and regression detection
• guide system-level configuration of bench hardware
• plan benchmarking fleet capacity and allocation
• collaborate with hardware, SRE, perception, behavior, and data science teams.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

software engineer

performance tooling

infrastructure

new grad

benchmarking

ci/cd

python

c++

linux

autonomous driving

mountain view ca

nuro

$153k-$175k

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

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

Why this role

The role spans bare-metal Linux and networking through cloud orchestration, CI/CD, and performance data visualization. The posting seeks approximately one or more years of industry software engineering experience and proficiency in Python with working proficiency in C++.

About the employer

Nuro is hiring for this role. Industry: Custom Computer Programming Services. Sector: 54.