Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Efficiency & Cost Optimization

Who We Are

Nuro is a self-driving technology company on a mission to make autonomy accessible to all. Founded in 2016, Nuro is building the world’s most scalable driver, combining cutting-edge AI with automotive-grade hardware. Nuro licenses its core technology, the Nuro Driver™, to support a wide range of applications, from robotaxis and commercial fleets to personally owned vehicles. With technology proven over years of self-driving deployments, Nuro gives the automakers and mobility platforms a clear path to AVs at commercial scale, empowering a safer, richer, and more connected future.

About the Team This role sits within Nuro’s Core Infrastructure team and partners deeply across every engineering organization — Autonomy, ML Platform, Simulation, Perception, Behavior, Mapping, BATES, and Release Engineering. Cloud is the substrate the entire company runs on. How efficiently we use it directly determines how many miles we can drive, how many models we can train, and how many scenarios we can validate per dollar. This is one of the highest-leverage engineering roles at Nuro: the systems, guardrails, and patterns you build will shape how thousands of jobs, pipelines, and services are designed and operated across the company.

About the Work

• Own cloud efficiency end-to-end. Identify the highest-ROI opportunities across storage, compute, data, and ML infrastructure, and deliver systems that capture those gains as durable platform behavior , not one-off cleanups.
• Drive cost-aware system design. Partner with teams on architecture and design reviews to ensure new systems are efficient by default. Raise the bar for how engineers reason about storage, retention, data layout, query patterns, compute sizing, and reservation strategy.
• Optimize performance and efficiency at scale. Profile and tune large-scale workloads — BigQuery analytics, data pipelines, simulation storage, ML training, and GKE services — turning expensive, slow jobs into efficient, high-throughput systems.
• Build cost observability and attribution. Deliver real-time visibility, anomaly detection, and fine-grained attribution (SKU, bucket, workload, team) so issues are identified and resolved in hours, not weeks.
• Eliminate systemic waste. Automate lifecycle and tiering (autoclass, archive, scene-based retention), right-size compute, and continuously clean up underutilized or orphaned resources across the fleet.
• Drive cross-org optimization. Partner across engineering to land high-impact improvements (e.g., precision reduction, query tuning, data lifecycle strategies) and convert them into guardrails that prevent regression.
• Establish cost governance. Define and scale processes for budgeting, forecasting, cost reviews, and incident response as Nuro grows. Enable teams to build cost-efficient systems by default through tooling, standards, and education.

About You

• Strong software engineering