Research Scientist in Machine Learning

Who We Are

Nuro was established to improve everyday life through robotics. Our specialized electric autonomous vehicles are designed to deliver everything you need—from groceries to prescriptions—straight to your doorstep. Nuro's autonomous, goods-focused solution allows you to reclaim valuable time and offers increased freedom to do what you enjoy. This convenient and eco-friendly substitute to driving has the potential to enhance road safety and make cities more habitable.

About the Role

The learned behavior team's responsibility is to employ advanced machine learning techniques to speed up software development. In this role, you will form a close connection with the software vertical teams to comprehend their challenges and explore innovative and advanced machine learning approaches to solve realistic, problematic, real-world issues. This could involve using self-supervised learning to learn robust representations, exploring techniques for out-of-distribution detection to solve long-tail problems, tweaking reinforcement learning techniques for motion planning, working on trajectory prediction and motion planning, examining the robustness of models to mitigate uncertainties, or attempting to construct an end-to-end driving system. If you relish tackling new challenges with a focus on finding practical solutions for eventual use in the vehicle, we invite you to join us!

About the Work

• Investigate new machine learning problems and models

• Work on goal-based, conditional, and joint trajectory prediction and motion planning

• Address the ambiguities encountered through the Autonomy stack

• Construct effective and efficient ML data pipelines

• Cooperate with autonomy teams to comprehend their challenges and priorities to chart the milestones of the corresponding roadmaps

• Create practical solutions and implement them on the NuroBot

About You

You possess in-depth knowledge and prior experience in one or several of the following fields:

• You hold an M.Sc. plus 2-3 years of relevant work experience or a Ph.D. (preferred) focusing on one or more areas such as Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, or a closely related field

• You have subject matter expertise and research in one or more of the following areas: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Robotics (preferred)

• You possess strong problem-solving skills and programming abilities in C++ or Python

• You demonstrate a strong cultural fit and are a good team player

• You have delivered research publications in any of the major conferences (RSS, ICRA, CoRL, CVPR, ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, ICCV, AAAI, etc.)

At Nuro, we celebrate diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive and psychologically safe workplace for all employees. Nuro is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and explicitly prohibits any form of workplace discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

At Nuro, your base income constitutes a part of your total compensation package. For this position, the reasonably expected pay scale falls between $167,200 and $250,800/year for the level at which this job has been assigned. Your base salary will depend on numerous factors, which include your experience, qualifications, education, location, and skills. Should you be considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range may apply. This position is also eligible for an annual performance bonus, equity, and a competitive benefits package.