Senior Systems Engineer, Fault Detection and Response

Who We Are 

Nuro exists to better everyday life through robotics. The company’s custom electric autonomous vehicles are designed to bring the things you need—from produce to prescriptions—right to your home. Nuro’s autonomous, goods-focused solution can give you valuable time back and more freedom to do what you love. This convenient, eco-friendly alternative to driving has the potential to make streets safer and cities more livable. 

 

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 Work

• The role of a systems fault detection and response engineer falls into 3 broad areas:
  • Safety-critical architecture (analysis and documentation) to quantify how to catch faults in a comm-based diagnostic system and how to define faults on that framework
  • Fault injection of the known and defined faults (coverage requirements, testing and mitigations) 
  • Contingency planning (requirements and testing)
• The ideal candidate should be able to design analytical or statistical experiments to quantify functional safety manifested in appropriate robot behavior as a function of faults. 
• Should efficiently communicate everyday with the engineering teams to enable efficient iteration of design decisions. Experience in self-driving is not a necessity, but willingness to learn rapidly on the job is.

 

About You

• Understand the robotics sense-plan-act loop
• Hands-on Python experience and read C++ code
• Experience in systems engineering or related: requirements and/or testing
• Strong communication skills - verbal and written
• Strong understanding of the mathematics behind physical systems and sensors/actuators

Bonus Points: 

• Autonomous vehicle background

 

At Nuro, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. For this position, the reasonably expected pay range is between $167,200 and $250,800 for the level at which this job has been scoped. Your base pay will depend on several factors, including your experience, qualifications, education, location, and skills. In the event that you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range would apply. This position is also eligible for an annual performance bonus, equity, and a competitive benefits package.

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.