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Machine Learning Research Scientist, Behavior Planning and Prediction

Nuro· Autonomy
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Mountain View, CA$160.4k - $240.5kPosted 7mo ago

About the role

Role focused on applying advanced machine learning to scalable planning and prediction for autonomous driving, collaborating with software teams to solve practical real-world problems and deploy solutions on vehicles.

Responsibilities

  • Work on scalable machine learning based planning and prediction systems to generate safe and feasible trajectories for autonomous driving.
  • Research generative sequence modeling and sequential decision making.
  • Mitigate uncertainties accumulated through interconnected autonomy components.
  • Collaborate across autonomy teams while developing holistic solutions to top autonomy challenges. Understand issues, propose ideas, prioritize work and develop solutions to solve them.
  • Derive practical solutions and deploy them on real-world vehicles.

Qualifications

  • M.Sc. or Ph.D. (preferable) focusing on Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, or a closely related field
  • Subject matter expertise and research in sequential decision making, Imitation Learning, Deep Reinforcement Learning, generative modeling, large models (pretraining/finetuning), machine learning for robotics
  • Strong problem solving and programming skills in Python (required) and C++ (beneficial)
  • Demonstrated research publications in top conferences (e.g. NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, RSS, CoRL, ICRA)

Skills

Required:Python
Nice to have:C++
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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