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

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Mountain View, California
Full Time
Posted November 24, 2025
$184k - $276k
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Job Description

This role involves advancing machine learning models for autonomous vehicles by developing perception and behavior systems, experimenting with state-of-the-art architectures, and deploying solutions on real-world self-driving hardware.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and advance end-to-end machine learning models for autonomous vehicles, including perception and behavior generation.
  • Experiment with and implement state-of-the-art ML architectures using large-scale datasets and compute infrastructure.
  • Research and apply novel solutions to complex AV challenges 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 deploying models to autonomous vehicles.

Requirements

  • A Master of Science (M.S.) or Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree is preferred in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, or a closely related field.
  • At least 3 years of experience focusing on one or more of the following areas: Machine Learning, End-to-End Autonomous Driving Models, Imitation Learning, Reinforcement Learning, or World Models.
  • Subject matter expertise and research experience in Machine Learning.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and programming skills in Python are required.
  • Programming skills in C are preferred.
  • Ability to utilize coding best practices as a part of work.
  • Demonstrated research publications at major conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CoRL, RSS, or ICRA.
  • Ability to work independently to push multi-faceted projects forward, collaborate across organizations, and deliver results in a timely manner.

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: Opportunities for research publication, collaborative work environment, diverse and inclusive workplace

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