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Senior Staff Machine Learning Research Scientist Generative Modeling for Planning

Nuro
Mountain View, California
Full Time
Posted April 30, 2026
$194k - $352k
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Job Description

A research-focused role developing and deploying advanced generative models for autonomous driving, collaborating with engineering teams to create safe, efficient, and real-world applicable autonomous vehicle behaviors.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and scale state-of-the-art generative models for autonomous plan generation
  • Build generative models utilizing foundation models, large language models, and world foundation models
  • Optimize generative models through reinforcement learning and reward modeling
  • Explore joint prediction, planning, and self-play techniques
  • Leverage generative models for active learning and world modeling
  • Develop controllable generative models to guide generation towards specific goals and conditions
  • Collaborate with autonomy teams to develop holistic solutions for autonomous driving challenges
  • Evaluate and deploy models on the NuroDriver platform

Requirements

  • A Ph.D. or M.Sc. with 3 years of experience working with generative models in the lab, in industry, or both.
  • Research experience in generative models, particularly diffusion models, flow matching, and energy-based models, for robotics, including manipulation, path planning, and autonomous driving.
  • Strong problem solving and programming skills in Python and/or C.
  • Demonstrated research publications in top conferences such as NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, RSS, CoRL, etc.

Benefits & Perks

Compensation/salary range between $193,930 and $352,290 annually, depending on experience and qualifications
Annual performance bonus
Equity options
Competitive benefits package

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