> Markdown version of [/jobs/ext/2854443-software-engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/jobs/ext/2854443-software-engineer). Every page supports `.md` or `Accept: text/markdown`. Links point to the HTML versions so they work for humans too. Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md).

---

# Software Engineer

- **Company:** Nuro Inc.
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $160,360.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), C++ (Programming Language), Profiling, Nvidia CUDA, Software Debugging, Memory Management, OpenCL, Performance Tuning, Multithreading, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), Gpu Programming, Perf (Linux)
- **Published:** September 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/ad250cff-aadd-426b-832f-5a39b01bd327/software-engineer-performance

## About the Role

* Strong system fundamentals and proficiency in C++
 * Expertise in computer architecture and operating systems
 * Experience developing in a highly concurrent, multi-processor, and multi-threaded environment
 * Experience with performance optimizations and software porting across a variety of compute architectures - like x86, ARM, GPUs, SoCs
 * Experience with performance profiling tools such as perf, VTune, BPF, Nvidia Nsight Systems
 * 2+ years of relevant industry experience
 * BS, MS or PhD in CS, or related technical field

Bonus Points:

 * Experience with GPU programming (e.g. CUDA, OpenCL) and low level driver optimization for Nvidia GPUs.
 * Experience with Nvidia DriveOS or ROS.

## Description

We are looking for talented engineers to join our Performance team to optimize the performance of Nuro's AV software, ensuring our vehicles can react quickly and safely to the world around them. The team builds systems and tools for continuous performance analysis and drives latency reduction and resource efficiency efforts to ensure the autonomy teams can implement an autonomy stack that is efficient and performant for the current and future generations of the Nuro Driver.

About the Work

 * Analyze, profile, debug, monitor, and optimize the performance of AV software
 * Design and develop systems and tools for memory management, thread prioritization, process/thread lifetime management
 * Work with engineers from different teams to define the system-level architecture and building blocks
 * Build core libraries and APIs to enable autonomy engineers to write high-performance code
 * Drive and encourage best practices within the team and the rest of the organization


## Related Videos

- [Coffee with Developers - Stephen Jones - NVIDIA](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1303-coffee-with-developers-stephen-jones-nvidia)
- [Profiling Symfony & PHP apps with Blackfire](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/265-profiling-symfony-php-apps-with-blackfire)
- [The weekly developer show: Boosting Python with CUDA, CSS Updates & Navigating New Tech Stacks](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1293-the-weekly-developer-show-boosting-python-with-cuda-css-updates-navigating-new-tech-stacks)
- [Accelerating Python on GPUs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/859-accelerating-python-on-gpus)
- [A Deep Dive on How To Leverage the NVIDIA GB200 for Ultra-Fast Training and Inference on Kubernetes](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1625-a-deep-dive-on-how-to-leverage-the-nvidia-gb200-for-ultra-fast-training-and-inference-on-kubernetes)
- [Accelerating Python on GPUs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1521-accelerating-python-on-gpus)

## Related Articles

- [What’s the latest in NVIDIA CUDA Python](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/568-what-s-the-latest-in-nvidia-cuda-python)
- [How software is steering vehicle technology](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/515-how-software-is-steering-vehicle-technology)
- [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers)
- [The Best X (Twitter) Accounts for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/294-the-best-x-twitter-accounts-for-developers)
- [MLOps And AI Driven Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/82-mlops-and-ai-driven-development)
- [Dev Digest 102 - Race conditions](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/386-dev-digest-102-race-conditions)