Systems Engineer, Autonomy Module

Mountain View, California (HQ)

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Nuro, Inc.

Less driving. More thriving. Nuro autonomous, zero-occupant vehicles are making more possible—today.

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Who We Are 

Nuro is a robotics start-up whose mission is to accelerate the benefits of robotics for everyday life. We have an elite team of entrepreneurs and engineers, designers, and scientists. We believe AI and robotics are at the cusp of transforming daily life and we are dedicated to building meaningful products with this technology. Join us and play a critical role in our mission.

About The Team

The Systems Engineering team is responsible for the requirements, architecture, and validation of autonomous driving capabilities across engineering disciplines. This includes designing performance metrics, evaluation methods, and criteria for success, which the team then drives cross-functional via requirement definition and system validation. Systems Engineering works at the intersection of hardware, software, and robot operations, with a deep understanding of technologies in all three. We are a small, high-impact team that sets the checkpoints for autonomy deployment.

 

About The Role

As a Systems Engineer - Autonomy you will work very closely with the software engineering, autonomy product, and data science teams to build scalable validation methodology and tools for assessing autonomy functionality. As a key part of Nuro's system validation approach, you will help create technologies that will drive autonomy development and gate the readiness of our robots on public roads. Your work is expected to have short term impact in our next deployments, as well as long term impact on autonomy feature roadmapping and Nuro’s scaled fleet operations.

About Your Work

  1. Decompose system and subsystem requirements into module level requirements, including teleoperations. For example, perception recall and precision requirements for various object types in various ranges, localization pose error requirements, controls bounding box dimensions. 
  2. Work closely with SWEs, Tech Leads, and Product Managers to review and recommend changes to module level evaluations such that meeting the module requirements will maximize chances of meeting the validation gates for deployment. For example, allowed performance of prediction evaluation in close proximity VRUs.
  3. Work closely with simulation engineers to ensure high fidelity, appropriate tools to evaluate the performance of various modules and their interaction with one another (Are we testing the right metrics in the right way?).
  4. Recommend coverage of test suites for module level evaluation, including ensuring the realism and relevance of proposed tests. For example, verifying if synthetic scenes created for collisions observed in hidden miles capture the relevant module’s failure mode with sufficient variation but without compromising the specificity of the scene.
  5. Prepare intra or inter-module budgets for metrics like latency and pose so that the total system budget is maintained by appropriate decomposition into module responsibilities.
  6. Support SOTIF and fault management analysis at the module level and serve as a Systems POC to Software for your assigned modules.
  7. Work closely with Hardware and Operations safety to quantify the impact of changes in their modules on HW or Ops, or vice versa. For example, requirements for using a changed camera for deployment, introduction of ABS on R2, unexpected faults on the wheel speed sensors.
  8. Work closely Hardware Systems Engineering to enable the next generation of robots be ready for autonomy and operations.

About You

  • Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree candidate in Computer Science, Math, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Physics, or related field.
  • Strong programming and algorithmic problem solving skills. You do not need to know data structures, but should be able to script prototypes and review code easily.
  • Technically fluent and experience working in a team with strong software engineering practices.
  • Deep understanding of how robotic systems work and ability to leverage this knowledge to build tooling and infrastructure to evaluate them.
  • Highly collaborative in nature with strong abilities to think and communicate analytically and effectively.  
  • Self starter and fast learner - you should be passionate about picking up new skills and approaching unstructured problems from first principles.
  • Software development and/or QA experience in one or more of autonomy’s core modules: localization, perception prediction, planning, controls, teleoperations.

At Nuro, we celebrate differences and are committed to a diverse workplace that fosters inclusion and psychological safety for all employees. Nuro is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and expressly prohibits any form of workplace discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

You must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by your hire date to be eligible to start the role. Proof of vaccination will be required by your start date. Nuro will consider and review accommodation requests based on medical, religious, or other grounds as required by applicable law for qualified candidates.

Tags: Architecture Autonomous Driving Computer Science Engineering Mathematics Physics Robotics Testing

Perks/benefits: Career development Health care

Region: North America
Country: United States
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Category: Engineering Jobs

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