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Nuro
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Senior Software Engineer, Collision Avoidance Testing

Open 96d North AmericaSenior H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
United States

Develops and executes collision avoidance tests for autonomous vehicles, analyzing real-world and simulated scenarios to improve safety, design test strategies, and quantify risk for Nuro’s Level 4 autonomy platform.

AI Analytics C++ Data Analytics Data Science +1 skills
160K – 291K $
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Nuro
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Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Labeling Platform

Open 96d North AmericaStaff H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
United States

Builds and maintains a scalable, fault-tolerant labeling platform for autonomous driving data, integrating ML-driven workflows and annotation tools to ensure high-quality sensor data for Nuro’s Level 4 autonomy systems.

AI C++ Distributed Systems Machine Learning Observability +1 skills
235K – 352K $
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Nuro
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Software Engineer, AI Platform - Intern

Open 96d North AmericaInternshipIntern H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
United States

An internship developing AI-driven autonomy software for Nuro’s Level 4 self-driving platform, focusing on data platforms, ML infrastructure, simulation, or technical infrastructure to enable scalable autonomous mobility solutions.

AI API Api Design CI/CD Cloud +9 skills
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Nuro
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Principal Software Engineer, Onboard Infrastructure

Open 96d North AmericaPrincipal H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
United States

Principal Software Engineer leads the design and development of Nuro’s onboard infrastructure for autonomous vehicles, focusing on hardware-agnostic device interfaces, runtime systems, and distributed execution to ensure high-performance, reliable autonomy software across platforms.

AI API C++ CUDA Data Pipelines +12 skills
258K – 387K $
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Nuro
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Senior Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure

Open 96d North AmericaSenior H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
United States

Builds and maintains the ML infrastructure platform for Nuro’s autonomous vehicle AI, focusing on GPU/CPU resource provisioning, workload orchestration, and petabyte-scale data pipelines to accelerate model development from experimentation to production.

AI AWS Azure Cloud Cloud Native +14 skills
194K – 291K $
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Nuro
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Senior/Staff Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure, Optimization

Open 96d North AmericaStaff H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
United States

Builds and optimizes ML infrastructure for Nuro’s autonomous vehicle fleet, focusing on model compression, deployment, and performance improvements (e.g., quantization, distillation) to enhance real-world autonomy.

AI C++ CUDA Deep Learning JAX +7 skills
194K – 352K $
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Nuro
5 views 4 weeks ago

Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure, Optimization

Open 96d North America H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
United States

Builds and optimizes ML infrastructure for Nuro’s autonomous vehicle fleet, focusing on model pipelines, compilers (e.g., FTL), and deployment of optimized models for safe on-road navigation.

AI C++ CUDA Deep Learning JAX +7 skills
160K – 241K $
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aleph Backed by Y Combinator
14 views 4 weeks ago

Staff+ Software Engineer, AI

Open 25d RemoteStaff

Staff+ engineer owning the AI foundation at Aleph's AI-native FP&A platform: model routing, proxy layers, eval infrastructure, and agentic features built on LLMs and agent frameworks.

Agentic AI AI API LLM Notion +3 skills
225K – 350K $
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Temporal Technologies Backed by a16z
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Staff Software Engineer - Test Systems & Tooling

Open 25d RemoteNorth AmericaPart-timeStaff H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
United States

Leads development of advanced test systems and tooling to validate complex, production-like scenarios (workloads, failures, multi-tenancy) for a distributed systems platform, ensuring reliability before production deployment.

Cloud Developer Experience Distributed Systems Observability
212K – 278K $
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Recruiting from Scratch
3 views 4 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer

Open 24d North AmericaSenior
United States

This Senior Software Engineer role is an onsite position in Boston for a seed-stage startup focused on developing innovative solutions to address musculoskeletal issues and reduce healthcare costs.

150K – 225K $
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Strala
4 views 4 weeks ago

Software Engineer

Open 21d North America
United States

Software Engineer at Strala, a startup rebuilding insurance infrastructure. The posting is truncated, so specific day-to-day technologies are not disclosed, but the team emphasizes strong algorithmic and research backgrounds (ICPC, NeurIPS).

AI OpenAI
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aleph Backed by Y Combinator
10 views 4 weeks ago

Staff+ Software Engineer, Product

Open 25d RemoteStaff

Staff+ Software Engineer at Aleph’s AI-native FP&A platform, owning end-to-end product features (UI, data models, integrations) and driving adoption across finance teams. Core tech stack: full-stack development, spreadsheet-grade UIs, financial data modeling, and AI-native workflows.

AI API Notion Webflow Zapier
225K – 320K $
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True Anomaly
2 views 4 weeks ago

Staff Flight Software Engineer

Open 99d On-siteNorth AmericaFull-timeStaff
United States

Staff Flight Software Engineer developing autonomous spacecraft flight software—including low-level firmware, GNC algorithm integration, device drivers, and HITL/SITL simulators—using C/C++, Python, and embedded RTOS on flight computers.

Automation Azure CI/CD C++ Embedded Linux +16 skills
165K – 290K $
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teleskope
5 views 4 weeks ago

Software Engineer II

Open 25d HybridNorth America
United States

Software engineer owning end-to-end customer-facing features on an AI-powered data security platform, working with distributed systems at petabyte scale using Go or Python on the backend.

AI Data Modeling Distributed Systems Machine Learning Notion +1 skills
150K – 180K $
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Redflag AI
8 views 4 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer (API/Python)

Open 85d North AmericaFull-timeSenior
United States

Develops and maintains APIs and web crawling services for content analysis across the internet, focusing on Python-based solutions to process text, images, video, and audio for reputation management and content protection.

AI API AWS OOP Python +3 skills
140K – 180K $
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Kognitos
9 views 4 weeks ago

Software Engineer Intern (AI-Native) — Fall 2026

Open 99d North AmericaInternshipIntern H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
United States

Intern building and shipping production features end-to-end using AI-native tooling like Claude Code and Cursor, working across AI, automation, and data systems.

AI API Automation AWS Azure +8 skills
3K – 4K $ / mo
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liquid-ai
7 views 4 weeks ago

Member of Technical Staff - Inference Systems

Open 25d HybridNorth AmericaFull-time
United States

Builds and maintains the inference engine layer for AI models, designing benchmarking suites and validating partner solutions across hardware targets (data centers/edge). Core focus: performance, correctness, and reproducibility of model deployments using frameworks like llama.cpp and ONNX.

AI C++ ONNX Python Quantization
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Voltus
10 views 4 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Open 25d RemoteSenior H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.

Builds and maintains Voltus’s distributed energy platform’s core infrastructure, including Kubernetes migration, AWS operations, observability, and AI-integrated tooling to ensure reliable, scalable, and secure grid connectivity for clean energy resources across the US and Canada.

AI Argo CD AWS AWS Bedrock Claude Code +35 skills
160K – 190K $
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modernhealth Backed by Y Combinator
11 views 4 weeks ago

Staff Software Engineer: Growth Engineering

Open 25d RemoteNorth AmericaFull-timeStaff
United States

Builds and maintains scalable backend and frontend systems for client onboarding, eligibility processing, and member access in a mental health benefits platform. Owns GraphQL APIs, React/React Native apps, and cross-functional tech strategy with high ownership and rapid impact.

Agentic AI AI API AWS Bash +28 skills
137K – 203K $
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nicmatec
6 views 4 weeks ago

(Senior) Java Softwareentwickler (m/w/d) - In 3 Minuten erfolgreich bewerben

Open 25d EuropeSenior
Germany

As a Senior Java Software Developer at nicmatec, you will work in agile teams to deliver custom software solutions, ranging from requirements analysis to deployment, while focusing on quality and unit testing.
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