Nuro

Senior ML Research Scientist, End-to-End Autonomous Driving

Nuro$183K — $275K *
Transportation
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, AI, Robotics, or related field with 3+ years of experience.
  • Expertise in Machine Learning, End-to-End Autonomous Driving Models, Imitation Learning, Reinforcement Learning, or World Models.
  • Strong programming skills in Python (required) and C++ (preferred).
  • Ability to work independently and manage multi-faceted projects effectively.
  • Demonstrated research publications at major conferences (e.g., CVPR, NeurIPS).
  • Strong team player and cultural fit in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

  • Advance state-of-the-art in end-to-end ML models for AV, processing raw sensor data and generating behaviors.
  • Experiment quickly and leverage vast real-world driving datasets and large-scale computing infrastructure.
  • Research and apply novel solutions to challenges, including long-tail event handling and safety in AVs.
  • Collaborate with autonomy teams to understand challenges and design holistic, learned solutions.
  • Build effective data, training, evaluation, and validation pipelines in collaboration with infrastructure and data teams.
  • Develop and deploy practical solutions to the NuroDriver on-road.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including health insurance and retirement plans.
  • Opportunity for annual performance bonuses and equity in the company.
  • Commitment to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
Full Job Description
About the Role

In this role, you will be a member of the Perception & Behavior team, leveraging the cutting edge of machine learning research to solve challenging real-world robotics problems. This role is focused on bringing advancements in the field of ML and large-scale learning to the AV domain, moving towards a more end-to-end autonomous driving system.

This role requires working with and developing large models for perception and behavior, keeping up-to-date and experimenting with state-of-the-art architectures quickly and efficiently, collaborating with other teams to determine data and infrastructure support needs, and working to improve model optimization and inference speeds. You will use your applied research skills to think through the creation and deployment of these ML models on our autonomous vehicles while working alongside talented researchers in the field. If you love solving fundamental AI challenges and deploying your solutions on robots used in the real world, come join us!
About the Work
  • 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!
About You

You have deep expertise and prior experience in some or many of the following areas:
  • You have an 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.
  • You have 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.
  • You have strong problem-solving and programming skills in Python (required) and C++ (preferred) and utilize coding best practices as a part of your work.
  • You are an independent researcher able to push multi-faceted projects forwards, collaborate across organizations, and deliver results in a timely manner.
  • You have demonstrated research publications at major conferences (e.g., CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CoRL, RSS, ICRA).
  • You are a strong culture fit, a great team player, and thrive in a fast-paced research and development environment.

At Nuro, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. For this position, the reasonably expected pay range is between $183,825.00 and $275,975.00/year for the level at which this job has been scoped. Your base pay will depend on several factors, including your experience, qualifications, education, location, and skills. In the event that you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range would apply. This position is also eligible for an annual performance bonus, equity, and a competitive benefits package.

About Nuro

Nuro is a technology company that develops autonomous delivery vehicles. The company was founded in 2016 by two former Google engineers, Dave Ferguson and Jiajun Zhu. Nuro's vehicles are designed to transport goods, rather than people, and are being used by companies such as Kroger and Domino's Pizza for deliveries. The company has raised over $1 billion in funding and is valued at over $5 billion.
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1,000 employees
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Founded
2016

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