Nuro · 5 months ago
Senior/Staff Machine Learning Research Scientist: Generative Modeling for Planning
Mountain View, California (HQ)
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$184K/yr - $334K/yr
3+ years expNuro is a self-driving technology company focused on making autonomy accessible to all. The role involves collaborating with researchers and engineers to develop state-of-the-art generative models for autonomous driving, specifically addressing plan generation challenges and optimizing these models for real-world applications.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Autonomous VehiclesRoboticsTransportation
Responsibilities
Develop and scale state-of-the-art generative models—especially diffusion architectures, flow-matching techniques, and energy-based models —for autonomous plan generation
Build generative models with foundation models. Leverage large language models and world foundation models for reasoning, decision making and multi-modality generation
Optimize generative models using reinforcement learning to improve interactive reasoning. Explore reward modeling/learned verifier using generative models. Explore joint prediction and planning and self-play. Leverage generative models for active learning and world modeling
Develop controllable generative models to guide the generation process towards desired goals, conditions and rewards
Collaborate across autonomy teams while developing holistic solutions to top autonomy challenges. Understand issues, propose ideas, prioritize work and develop solutions to solve them, evaluate your solution by deploying the models on to the NuroDriver
Qualification
Required
Ph.D. (preferable) or M.Sc. with 3+ years of experience working with generative models in the lab, in industry, or both
Research experiences in generative models, particularly diffusion models, flow matching and energy-based models, for robotics, including manipulation, path planning, and autonomous driving
Experiences in vision-language-action models, reinforcement learning for generative model optimization, video generation, text-to-image generation, diffusion models for LLMs, world foundation models, and other applications of generative modeling are a bonus!
Strong problem solving and programming skills in Python and/or C++
Strong culture fit and good team player
Demonstrated research publications in top conferences (e.g. NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, RSS, CoRL etc.)
Benefits
Annual performance bonus
Equity
Competitive benefits package
Company
Nuro
Nuro is a robotics company specializing in the development of autonomous driving technologies.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$2.34BKey Investors
Disney AcceleratorTiger Global ManagementT. Rowe Price
2025-08-21Series E· $97M
2025-04-09Series E· $106M
2024-04-06Secondary Market
Leadership Team
Jiajun Zhu
Co-Founder and Co-CEO
Dave Ferguson
Co-Founder
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