Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Behavior Verification
Core
Implementing metrics to evaluate and verify the end-to-end driving behavior of autonomous vehicles to quantify safety within target Operation Design Domains (ODD).
Role type
Senior/Staff Software Engineer (Autonomous Vehicle Behavior Verification)
Builds
Verification metrics, automated verification workflows, and safety validation reports for the Nuro Driver platform.
Domain
Autonomous driving / Robotics / Physical AI
Deliverable
production ML models | dashboards & analysis
Required skills
Python, C++, robotic systems architecture, simulation and real-world testing, behavior planning/prediction systems, safety metrics development, data analysis
Preferred skills
L4 autonomous vehicle software development, computational models for driving behavior, ML-based metrics for behavior evaluation
Technologies
Python, C++, simulation environments, log analysis tools
Responsibilities
Develop generalizable metrics to verify autonomous vehicle driving behavior; Evaluate metrics on synthetic, simulation, on-road, and third-party accident reconstruction data; Collaborate with Systems, Behavior, Perception, and Legal teams to define acceptance criteria; Partner with infrastructure teams to set up automated verification workflows; Generate performance and validation reports to prove system safety for deployment.
Seniority
Senior/Staff, hands-on IC with mentorship potential
