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

Nuro
Mountain View, California
Full Time
Posted November 11, 2025
$184k - $276k
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Job Description

The role involves advancing machine learning models for autonomous vehicles, focusing on perception and behavior, deploying solutions on real-world robots, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to solve complex AI challenges in self-driving technology.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and advance end-to-end machine learning models for autonomous vehicles, including perception and behavior generation.
  • Experiment with state-of-the-art ML architectures using large-scale real-world datasets and compute infrastructure.
  • Research and implement solutions for challenging AV problems such as long-tail event handling, safety, and verifiable reasoning.
  • Collaborate with autonomy teams to identify challenges and design holistic, learned solutions.
  • Build and optimize data, training, evaluation, and validation pipelines for ML models.
  • Deploy practical, high-performance ML solutions to the NuroDriver autonomous vehicle system.

Requirements

  • Possess an M.S. or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, or a closely related field, or have at least 3 years of experience focusing on one or more of these areas.
  • Have subject matter expertise and research experience in at least one of the following areas: Machine Learning, End-to-End Autonomous Driving Models, Imitation Learning, Reinforcement Learning, or World Models.
  • Have strong problem-solving skills and programming skills in Python.
  • Have experience with C programming language (preferred).
  • Utilize coding best practices as part of your work.
  • Demonstrate the ability to independently push multi-faceted projects forward, collaborate across organizations, and deliver results in a timely manner.
  • Have research publications at major conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CoRL, RSS, or ICRA.

Benefits & Perks

Compensation/salary range: $183,825.00 to $275,975.00 per year
Work schedule: Not specified
Work environment perks: Annual performance bonus, equity, competitive benefits package
Additional benefits: Not specified

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