Nuro · 16 hours ago
Senior ML Research Scientist, End-to-End Autonomous Driving
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$184K/yr - $276K/yr
3+ years expNuro is a self-driving technology company on a mission to make autonomy accessible to all. The role involves leveraging advanced machine learning research to solve challenging real-world robotics problems, focusing on developing large models for perception and behavior in the autonomous driving domain.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Autonomous VehiclesRoboticsTransportation
Responsibilities
Work on and advance the state-of-the-art in end-to-end ML models for AV, from processing raw sensor data (camera, LiDAR, radar) to generating behaviors
Experiment quickly and fail fast while leveraging massive real-world driving datasets and large-scale compute infrastructure
Research and apply novel solutions to some of the most challenging problems in AVs, including long-tail event handling, safe, verifiable reasoning and comfort in AV
Collaborate with autonomy teams to understand top autonomy challenges and design roadmaps for solving them with holistic, learned solutions
Work with infrastructure, data and evaluation teams to build effective and efficient data, training, evaluation, and validation pipelines
Develop practical, performant solutions and deploy them to the NuroDriver on-road!
Qualification
Required
M.S. or Ph.D. (preferred) in addition to 3+ years of experience focusing on one or more of the following: Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, or a closely related field
Subject matter expertise and research experience in one or more of the following areas: Machine Learning (required), End-to-End Autonomous Driving Models, Imitation Learning, Reinforcement Learning, or World Models
Strong problem-solving and programming skills in Python (required) and C++ (preferred) and utilize coding best practices as a part of your work
Independent researcher able to push multi-faceted projects forwards, collaborate across organizations, and deliver results in a timely manner
Demonstrated research publications at major conferences (e.g., CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CoRL, RSS, ICRA)
Strong culture fit, a great team player, and thrive in a fast-paced research and development environment
Preferred
Ph.D. in addition to 3+ years of experience focusing on one or more of the following: Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, or a closely related field
C++ programming skills
Benefits
Annual performance bonus
Equity
Competitive benefits package
Company
Nuro
Nuro is a robotics company specializing in the development of autonomous driving technologies.
501-1000 employees
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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
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