Who We Are 

Nuro exists to better everyday life through robotics. Founded in 2016, Nuro has spent eight years developing autonomous driving (AD) technology and commercializing AD applications. The Nuro Driver™ is our world-class autonomous driving system that combines AD hardware with our generalized AI-first self-driving software. Built to learn and improve through data, the Nuro Driver™ is one of the few driverless autonomous technologies on public roads today.

Nuro has raised over $2B in capital from Fidelity, Bailie Gifford, T. Rowe Price, Google, and other leading investors. We’ve partnered with some of the world’s most respected brands including Uber, FedEx, Domino’s, Walmart, Kroger, and 7-Eleven

About the Role

In this role, you will work closely with the autonomy teams to solve nominal and long tail perception, prediction, and planning problems through novel and advanced machine learning methods, including foundation models, multi-modal LLMs, generative models, out-of-distribution detection, imitation learning, and reinforcement learning. If you love solving challenging problems and deploying those solutions into the real world, come join us!

About the Work

• 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

About You

You have deep expertise and prior experience in some or many of the following areas:

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

At Nuro, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. For this position, the reasonably expected base pay range is between $222,775 and $367,175 for the level at which this job has been scoped. Your base pay will depend on several factors, including your experience, qualifications, education, location, and skills. In the event that you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range would apply. This position is also eligible for an annual performance bonus, equity, and a competitive benefits package.

At Nuro, we celebrate differences and are committed to a diverse workplace that fosters inclusion and psychological safety for all employees. Nuro is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and expressly 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.