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Senior Staff ML Performance Engineer, Low-Precision Training Model quantization

Nuro
Mountain View, California
Full Time
Posted November 4, 2025
$194k - $352k
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Job Description

Nuro is seeking an ML Performance Engineer to optimize and implement quantization techniques for efficient training and deployment of self-driving vehicle models, collaborating across research and product teams to enhance autonomous driving technology.

Key Responsibilities

  • Drive adoption of state-of-the-art quantization techniques for model training and deployment.
  • Improve model training efficiency through low-precision training methods, including quantization and pruning.
  • Evaluate emerging research and implement new quantization methods for self-driving models.
  • Design and implement efficiency initiatives for model training, focusing on low-bit quantization and pruning.
  • Identify and troubleshoot model quality and accuracy regressions during low-precision training.
  • Collaborate with research, infrastructure, and product teams to optimize accuracy, latency, and resource use.

Requirements

  • 3 years of professional or research experience in ML infrastructure, distributed training, or ML systems engineering
  • Hands-on experience with quantization methods, including Activation-Aware Weight Quantization AWQ, Accurate Quantized Training AQT, FP-8 training, or related methods
  • Experience building or maintaining quantization libraries e.g., AQT, bitsandbytes, NVIDIA Transformer Engine, DeepSpeed Compression
  • Understanding of calibration and scaling strategies for quantized models to minimize accuracy loss

Benefits & Perks

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

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