Head of Systems Engineering

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Nuro believes self-driving vehicles are the most immediate and profound opportunity for AI to drive positive change in the physical world. Safer streets, more time for what matters, and easier access to the world around us, that's why we're building a universal autonomy platform: self-driving for all roads and all rides. Founded in 2016, Nuro is a physical AI company developing Level 4 autonomous driving technology for a wide range of vehicles, use cases, and markets. Powered by the Nuro Driver™, our universal autonomy platform enables the global mobility ecosystem to deploy autonomy at scale, from robotaxis and logistics fleets to personal vehicles. With years of real-world deployment experience and a flexible, partner-led business model, Nuro is working toward a future where millions of autonomous vehicles powered by our technology help make everyday life safer, easier, and more connected. Nuro has raised over $2B in capital from Uber, NVIDIA, Google, Softbank, Fidelity, T. Rowe Price, and other leading investors. Nuro is looking for a Head of Systems Engineering to own the systems backbone that enables the Nuro Driver to scale safely and commercially. This leader will own the end-to-end systems engineering function across autonomy, software and hardware systems, technical parts of the safety case, requirements, system architecture, validation strategy and execution, system performance, and deployment readiness. The role sits at the center of Nuro's technical and commercial execution, connecting product, functional and safety goals, autonomy capabilities, hardware constraints, the operational design domain, and commercial milestones into one coherent system strategy. This is a critical role for Nuro's next phase of growth. As we scale toward larger commercial launches, new geographies, new vehicle platforms, and broader deployment environments, this leader will help define what the system must do, how we know it works, what evidence proves it is ready, and what must be true before we launch or expand. This is a technical leadership role for someone who is excited about turning frontier autonomous driving technology into a durable commercial product Why This Role Matters Autonomous driving does not scale through isolated technical wins. It scales when the full system can be integrated, validated, safety-verified, deployed, monitored, and expanded with confidence. Systems Engineering helps to define the technical bar, structure the safety and validation evidence, identify system-level risks, and create the mechanisms that allow Nuro to move faster without losing rigor. This role is critical to Nuro's ability to: Scale the Nuro Driver across different vehicle platforms and commercial applications. Build a robust safety case that supports public-road deployment and expansion. Translate autonomy progress into measurable system-level readiness. Connect hardware, software, safety, product, and operations into one integrated technical strategy. Create the standards, evidence, and decision frameworks required for long-term commercial scale. About the Work In this role, you will: Own and scale Nuro's Systems Engineering function across autonomy, hardware, safety case, requirements, validation, system performance, technical risk, and deployment readiness. Define the systems engineering strategy required to support Nuro's next phase of growth across multiple cities, vehicle platforms, commercial partnerships, and future international markets. Translate product goals, safety goals, commercial use cases, and deployment milestones into system requirements, measurable performance targets, validation plans, and launch readiness frameworks. Own the requirements architecture, system decomposition, and interface management for the Nuro Driver across autonomy software, sensing, compute, vehicle software and hardware, and safety. Drive the system-level safety case in collaboration with Autonomy, Hardware, Legal, Product, and Operations, ensuring the safety argument is rigorous, evidence-based, and tied to commercial deployment milestones. Define the technical and validation framework for public-road operation, commercial launch, geographic expansion, platform expansion, and new use cases. Lead technical analyses and trade studies that inform architecture, sensing configuration, compute strategy, vehicle integration, safety mitigations, ODD expansion, and deployment readiness. Create mechanisms for risk identification, readiness reviews, requirements governance, launch decision-making, and cross-functional execution. Build, develop, and retain a high-caliber Systems Engineering organization. About You You are a senior technical leader who wants to solve one of the hardest and most important problems in autonomous driving: turning a complex AI, software, hardware, and safety-critical system into a product that can scale in the real world. You are energized by complexity.

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