Software Engineer Intern

Job Description

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 Role

As a software engineer intern, you will work closely with leading experts in the field of machine learning, robotics, and software.

About the Work

Depending on your skill sets and areas of interest, you will work on some or all of the following:

• Product Engineering: Building a robust and automated service for our clients, partners, and customers including back-end, front-end, and full-stack software
• Infrastructure: Building foundational software to support Product Engineering, Autonomy, Hardware and Operations including but not limited to storage systems, processing pipelines, security, bot connectivity, simulation, data collection, and machine learning infrastructure
• Embedded Systems: Design the brain stem software of Nuro’s robots - the critical code that makes the robot sense and move in the world
• Autonomy:
• Machine Learning: Work across the software organization to research and develop novel machine learning methods and algorithms
• Mapping & Localization: Research, develop and implement algorithms to resolve large-scale mapping and real-time localization problems for our fleet of self-driving delivery robots
• Perception : Resolve real-world robotics problems in one or more of the following areas: perception, computer vision, machine learning, sensor fusion, state estimation, object detection, classification, and tracking
• Prediction: Develop novel algorithms that process large amounts of real-world data to train and tune behavior models for a variety of agents around our autonomous vehicles
• Planning & Controls: Work on manipulating and controlling our self-driving vehicles including path planning, navigation, optimization, and control

About You

• You are a current BS, MS or PhD candidate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related field
• You have experience in one or more of the following areas: backend API design, applications development, large-scale distributed systems; data storage and processing systems; advanced algorithms using C++ and Python; machine learning, multithreading; x86 architecture; and software performance tuning and optimization, robotics software frameworks, different compute modalities (CPU, GPU, FPGA) etc.
• You have strong problem solving and programming skills

Nuro is an equal opportunity employer and expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.