Nuro
Machine Learning Research Scientist, Behavior Planning and Prediction
Mountain View, California (HQ)
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 2 days ago
PythonC++Machine LearningLogisticsRoboticsResearchProblem Solving
About the role
- The mandate of the learned behavior team is to use advanced machine learning techniques to accelerate software progress.
- In this role, you will work closely with the software vertical teams to understand their pain points and explore novel and advanced machine learning methods to solve practical real-world challenging problems.
- If you love solving challenging new problems with a mindset of deriving practical solutions to eventually be used on the vehicle, come join us!
Responsibilities
- Nuro believes self-driving vehicles are the most immediate and profound opportunity for AI to drive positive change in the physical world.
- Safer streets, more time for what matters, and easier access to the world around us, that's why we're building a universal autonomy platform: self-driving for all roads and all rides.
- Collaborate across autonomy teams while developing holistic solutions to top autonomy challenges. Understand issues, propose ideas, prioritize work and develop solutions to solve them.
Nice to have
- Mitigate uncertainties accumulated through interconnected autonomy components.
- Derive practical solutions and deploy them on real-world vehicles.
- Embodied AI for robotics, Causal reasoning, Model interpretability and explainability, Joint prediction and planning.
- You have deep expertise and prior experience in some or many of the following areas:
- You have an M.Sc. or Ph.D. (preferable) focusing on one or more of the following areas: Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, or a closely related field
- You have strong problem solving and programming skills in Python (required) and C++ (beneficial)
- Strong culture fit and good team player
- Demonstrated research publications in top conferences (e.g. NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, RSS, CoRL, ICRA)
Skills
- Your base pay will depend on several factors, including your experience, qualifications, education, location, and skills.
Compensation
- At Nuro, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package.
- For this position, the reasonably expected pay range is between $160,360 and $240,540/ year for the level at which this job has been scoped.
- In the event that you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range would apply.
Benefits
- This position is also eligible for an annual performance bonus, equity, and a competitive benefits package.
Company info
- Nuro believes self-driving vehicles are the most immediate and profound opportunity for AI to drive positive change in the physical world. Safer streets, more time for what matters, and easier access to the world around us, that's why we're building a universal autonomy platform: self-driving for all roads and all rides.
- Founded in 2016, Nuro is a physical AI company developing Level 4 autonomous driving technology for a wide range of vehicles, use cases, and markets. Powered by the Nuro Driver™, our universal autonomy platform enables the global mobility ecosystem to deploy autonomy at scale, from robotaxis and logistics fleets to personal vehicles.
- With years of real-world deployment experience and a flexible, partner-led business model, Nuro is working toward a future where millions of autonomous vehicles powered by our technology help make everyday life safer, easier, and more connected.
- Nuro has raised over $2B in capital from Uber, NVIDIA, Google, Softbank, Fidelity, T. Rowe Price, and other leading investors.
- Founded in 2016, Nuro is a physical AI company developing Level 4 autonomous driving technology for a wide range of vehicles, use cases, and markets.
- Powered by the Nuro Driver™, our universal autonomy platform enables the global mobility ecosystem to deploy autonomy at scale, from robotaxis and logistics fleets to personal vehicles.
- Nuro has raised over $2B in capital from Uber, NVIDIA, Google, Softbank, Fidelity, T.
- Rowe Price, and other leading investors.
- Research generative sequence modeling and sequential decision making. Research backgrounds we are looking for but not limited to are:
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