Senior/ Staff Machine Learning Research Scientist

Who We Are

Nuro is committed to improving everyday life through robotics. Our specialized electric autonomous vehicles are designed to deliver the essentials you need—from groceries to prescriptions—right to your doorstep. Nuro's autonomous, goods-centric solution can save you precious time, allowing you more freedom to engage in the activities you enjoy. This convenient, environmentally friendly alternative to driving could potentially enhance street safety and improve city livability.

About the Role

The main goal of the learned behavior team is to utilize advanced machine learning techniques to expedite software development. In this role, you will collaborate closely with the software vertical teams to comprehend their difficulties and explore innovative and advanced machine learning methodologies to address pragmatic, real-world, and challenging issues. For instance, using self-supervised learning to learn robust representations, exploring techniques for out-of-distribution detection to address long tail issues, adapting reinforcement learning approaches for motion planning, dealing with trajectory prediction and motion planning, examining the robustness of models to lessen uncertainties, or striving to develop an end-to-end driving system. If you relish grappling with challenging, novel problems and are focused on deriving pragmatic solutions that will be implemented on the vehicle, come join us!

About the Work

• Research novel machine learning issues and models
• Work on goal-oriented, conditional, and shared trajectory prediction and motion planning
• Address uncertainties integrated within the Autonomy stack
• Create effective and efficient ML data pipelines
• Cooperate with autonomy teams to comprehend their difficulties and priorities to determine milestones of the associated roadmaps
• Formulate practical solutions and implement them on the NuroBot

About You

You possess extensive knowledge and previous experience in some or many of the following areas:

• You hold a M.Sc. with 4 years of relevant work experience or a Ph.D. with 2 years of relevant work experience focusing on one or more of the following areas: Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, or a closely related field
• You have expert knowledge and research experience in one or more of the following areas: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Robotics (preferred)
• You demonstrate strong problem-solving capabilities and programming skills in C++ or Python
• You are a strong team player and fit well with the company culture
• You've made research contributions 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 creating an inclusive and psychologically safe workplace for all employees. Nuro is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and categorically 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 attributes.

At Nuro, your base salary is one part of your total compensation package. For this position, the reasonably expected salary range is between $202,350 and $303,050 yearly, according to the job level. Your base salary will depend on several factors including your experience, qualifications, education, location, and skills. If you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower salary range might apply. This position is also eligible for an annual performance bonus, equity, and a competitive benefits package.