Senior Staff, Machine Learning Research Scientist

$222,775 - $367,175/Yr

Nuro - Mountain View, CA

Full-time - Senior

Mountain View, CA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Senior Staff, Machine Learning Research Scientist at Nuro is responsible for advancing the company's autonomous driving technology through innovative machine learning methods. This role involves collaborating with autonomy teams to address complex perception, prediction, and planning challenges, while also providing leadership and guidance to a large team. The position emphasizes the application of cutting-edge machine learning techniques to real-world problems, contributing to the deployment of autonomous software on public roads.

Responsibilities

• Apply and research novel and advanced machine-learning techniques.
• Solve perception, prediction, and planning problems in a state-of-the-art autonomy system.
• Build and leverage effective and efficient ML data pipelines.
• Provide technical and people leadership to a large team.
• Production and deploy autonomous software to public roads.

Requirements

• 6+ years of work experience with an M.Sc. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, or a closely related field.
• Deep subject matter expertise and research in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Robotics.
• Strong problem solving and programming skills in C++ or Python.
• Demonstrated research publications in major conferences (RSS, ICRA, CoRL, CVPR, ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, ICCV, AAAI, etc.).
• Strong culture fit and good team player.

Benefits

• Annual performance bonus
• Equity
• Competitive benefits package