Chief of Staff, AI Platform

Organizational Operations and Execution

• Partner with the VP and Technology Group leadership team to define, operationalize, and continuously improve the organization’s operating system
• Serve as an extension of the VP, drive execution on critical technical programs by identifying long-pole dependencies, unblocking progress, and tracking key milestones across data, infrastructure, and software systems
• Facilitate collaboration between AI Platform, Autonomy, and Hardware teams to ensure alignment and integration across all technical layers of Nuro’s stack
• Manage leadership meetings, quarterly reviews, and cross-functional communications to maintain clarity, momentum, and accountability
• Anticipate risks and proactively drive solutions across engineering and partner interfaces

Strategic and Business Alignment

• Serve as a thought partner to the VP on organization structure, strategic priorities, and resource allocation
• Help define and track critical milestones that tie AI Platform deliverables directly to company-level objectives and commercialization timelines
• Drive alignment between Nuro’s technical roadmap and business strategy, ensuring the AI Platform’s architecture and tools accelerate autonomy development and customer success
• Act as a connective layer between deeply technical teams and cross-functional stakeholders, translating complex engineering work into business impact and commercial readiness

Program and Partner Management

• Work with TPMs and functional leads to maintain clear visibility into critical-path deliverables and readiness checkpoints across infrastructure, data systems, and ML development
• Coordinate with commercial and partner teams to ensure AI Platform capabilities are well-positioned to support external use cases and integrations
• Translate technical updates into executive-ready insights and communications for senior leadership and Board audiences

People and Culture

• Partner with the People and Recruiting teams to support headcount planning, talent reviews, and engagement initiatives
• Help foster a culture of operational rigor, accountability, and cross-functional collaboration
• Encourage alignment, clarity, and consistency across geographically distributed teams

This role helps build the AI Platform that powers Nuro's self-driving technology, which aims to make autonomy accessible to all and create a safer, richer, and more connected future through scalable autonomous vehicle solutions.

• 7+ years of experience in engineering operations, consulting, product or program management, or technical leadership roles within large-scale software, AI, or infrastructure systems
• Proven technical depth, with the ability to engage meaningfully in discussions across software engineering areas
• Evidence of excellence, a track record of high performance and tangible impact in your current or previous roles, whether through technical achievement, organizational leadership, or strategic execution
• Exceptional analytical judgment, capable of navigating ambiguity, identifying first-principles solutions, and driving clarity in complex decision spaces
• A rigorous, problem-solving mindset, honed through disciplined thinking and years of technical or operational experience
• Strong communication and influence skills, enabling you to translate between engineering and business contexts and align diverse teams around shared outcomes
• Intrinsic motivation and a bias for action, you take ownership, anticipate challenges, and elevate the bar for operational excellence

Base pay range: $160,000 - $240,000 annually, plus annual performance bonus, equity, and a competitive benefits package. Nuro offers a diverse workplace that fosters inclusion and psychological safety for all employees.

Nuro is a self-driving technology company on a mission to make autonomy accessible to all. It builds scalable AI Platforms and licenses its Nuro Driver™ technology for applications like robotaxis, commercial fleets, and personally owned vehicles to empower a safer, richer, and more connected future.