10 Nuro engineering leaders
Tilo Schwarz, Vice President of Engineering, Nuro Driver, is the most senior of these Nuro engineering leaders, who also include heads of hardware, controls and embedded software, autonomy infrastructure and planning, and directors of verification and test and of ML infrastructure. A reader can learn how engineering leaders work at Nuro from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
Ananth Kini
LinkedInExperience: Director, Autonomy Verification & Test Engineering · Nuro
Ananth Kini has been Director, Autonomy Verification & Test Engineering at Nuro since June 2024 and was Tech Lead Manager, Autonomy Systems there from 2023 to 2024, based in Mountain View, California. Ananth Kini was Technical Lead - Driving Behavior Systems at Waymo from 2019 to 2023 and Director Of Engineering at Cyngn from 2018 to 2019.
Andrew Beinstein
LinkedInExperience: Director, Head of Product Engineering · Nuro
Andrew Beinstein was Director, Head of Product Engineering at Nuro from May 2022 to May 2023, leading a Product Engineering org of about 40 software engineers and engineering managers that built the operating system for Nuro's fleet of electric autonomous vehicles. Andrew Beinstein has been Head of Engineering at Forus since April 2026 and was VP of Engineering at DeepScribe from 2024 to 2026.
Jack Xiaojiang Guo
LinkedInExperience: Head of Autonomy Infrastructure · Nuro
Jack Xiaojiang Guo has been Head of Autonomy Infrastructure at Nuro since May 2023, leading the offboard infrastructure stack for autonomy and ML, including ML infrastructure, data labeling and discovery and visualization tooling. Jack Xiaojiang Guo was Head of Autonomy Platform at Nuro from 2021 to 2023 and Tech Lead Manager - Perception there from 2020 to 2021.
Juergen Heit
LinkedInExperience: Director of ML Infrastructure · Nuro
Juergen Heit has been Director of ML Infrastructure at Nuro since July 2025, responsible for the efficiency and reliability of ML workloads on-device and in the cloud. Juergen Heit was Senior Manager at Waymo from 2022 to 2025 and Group Manager for ML in Autonomous Driving Simulations at NIO from 2017 to 2020.
Matt Hanczor
LinkedInExperience: Head of Planning · Nuro
Matt Hanczor has been Head of Planning at Nuro since April 2024 and lists the role as Director, Head of Autonomy Planning, based in Brooklyn, New York. At Nuro Matt Hanczor was Manager of Machine Learning from 2021 to 2024, Tech Lead from 2020 to 2021 and Machine Learning Researcher from 2019 to 2020.
Matthew Renna
LinkedInExperience: Head of Hardware Engineering · Nuro
Matthew Renna has been Head of Hardware Engineering at Nuro since March 2022, based in Mountain View, California. Matthew Renna was Vice President E-Mobility and Innovation at Volkswagen of America from 2018 to 2022, worked in engineering, vehicle programs and business operations at Tesla from 2013 to 2018 and was Development Engineer at Honda Performance Development from 2008 to 2012.
Sreeja Nag
LinkedInExperience: Head of ADS Validation and Systems Engineering · Nuro
Sreeja Nag was Head of ADS Validation and Systems Engineering at Nuro from November 2019 to June 2026. Sreeja Nag has been Director of Engineering at Waymo since August 2026, working on sense and perception systems, and was Principal Investigator and Senior Scientist (BAERI) at NASA Ames Research Center from 2015 to 2026.
Tanmay Batra
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering, Head of ML Platform · Nuro
Tanmay Batra was Director of Engineering, Head of ML Platform at Nuro from February 2022 to October 2023, and the profile describes an ML Platform organization with several pillars for ML product and infrastructure development. Tanmay Batra has been Head of AI/ML at Keysight Technologies since 2023 and was Senior Machine Learning Manager (Vision Pro & ARKit) at Apple from 2016 to 2022.
Tilo Schwarz
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Engineering, Nuro Driver · Nuro
Tilo Schwarz has been Vice President of Engineering, Nuro Driver at Nuro since December 2024 and was Vice President, Head of Autonomy there from 2023 to 2024, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Tilo Schwarz was Director Autonomous Driving at Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America from 2021 to 2023 and Distinguished Engineer, Lead Architect Autonomous Driving there from 2018 to 2021.
Yisheng Zhang
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director, Head of Controls, Pose and Embedded Software · Nuro
Yisheng Zhang has been Sr. Director, Head of Controls, Pose and Embedded Software at Nuro since August 2025, based in Troy, Michigan. At Nuro Yisheng Zhang was Sr. Director, Head of Controls and Embedded Software in 2025, Head of Controls and Embedded Software from 2024 to 2025, Head of Controls from 2023 to 2024 and Technical Lead Manager, Controls from 2022 to 2023.
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