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Senior ML Research Scientist, Perception Foundation Encoder

Nuro
Mountain View, California
Full Time
Posted February 10, 2026
$194k - $291k
Electric Vehicles
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Job Description

This role involves developing and optimizing the perception architecture for Nuro's self-driving vehicles, focusing on creating foundational sensor data encoders that enable critical functionalities like object detection, mapping, and scene understanding using advanced machine learning techniques.

Key Responsibilities

  • Define the perception architecture of Nuro Driver.
  • Develop training techniques for the foundational perception encoder.
  • Contribute to the development of the perception stack, including object detection, tracking, online mapping, and scene understanding.
  • Apply machine learning expertise to optimize model performance, latency, and maintenance.
  • Research and implement multi-modal models, large-scale model training, and model distillation techniques.

Requirements

  • Ph.D. level research experience in areas such as multi-modal models, large multi-task vision models, large scale model training, and model distillation.
  • At least 3 years of experience working deeply on a machine learning project with material contributions.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and demonstrated software engineering experience in both high-level and low-level languages, specifically Python and C.
  • Publications at major conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CoRL, RSS, or ICRA.

Benefits & Perks

Compensation/salary range: $193,930.00 to $291,150.00 per year
Work schedule: Not specified
Work environment perks: Not specified
Additional benefits: Annual performance bonus, equity, competitive benefits package

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