Nuro · 2 days ago
Machine Learning Research Scientist, Behavior Planning and Prediction
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$160K/yr - $241K/yrNuro is a self-driving technology company focused on making autonomy accessible to all. The role involves using advanced machine learning techniques to develop planning and prediction systems for autonomous driving, collaborating with teams to address challenges and derive practical solutions for real-world applications.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Autonomous VehiclesRoboticsTransportation
Responsibilities
Work on scalable machine learning based planning and prediction systems to generate safe and feasible trajectories for autonomous driving
Research generative sequence modeling and sequential decision making
Mitigate uncertainties accumulated through interconnected autonomy components
Collaborate across autonomy teams while developing holistic solutions to top autonomy challenges. Understand issues, propose ideas, prioritize work and develop solutions to solve them
Derive practical solutions and deploy them on real-world vehicles
Qualification
Required
You have an M.Sc. or Ph.D. (preferable) focusing on one or more of the following areas: Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, or a closely related field
You have subject matter expertise and research in one or more of the following areas: sequential decision making, Imitation Learning, Deep Reinforcement Learning, generative modeling, large models (pretraining/finetuning), machine learning for robotics
You have strong problem solving and programming skills in Python (required) and C++ (beneficial)
Strong culture fit and good team player
Demonstrated research publications in top conferences (e.g. NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, RSS, CoRL, ICRA)
Preferred
Embodied AI for robotics
Causal reasoning
Model interpretability and explainability
Joint prediction and planning
Benefits
Annual performance bonus
Equity
Competitive benefits package
Company
Nuro
Nuro is a robotics company specializing in the development of autonomous driving technologies.
Founded in 2016
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (50)
2024 (67)
2023 (91)
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2021 (68)
2020 (55)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$2.34BKey Investors
Disney AcceleratorTiger Global ManagementT. Rowe Price
2025-08-21Series E· $97M
2025-04-09Series E· $106M
2024-04-06Secondary Market
Leadership Team
Jiajun Zhu
Co-Founder and Co-CEO
Dave Ferguson
Co-Founder
Recent News
Greylock
2025-12-29
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