ML Research Scientist, Prediction & Smart Agents
Mountain View, CA$193.9k - $291.2kfull-timePosted 7mo ago
About the role
Research-focused role on the Prediction and Smart Agents team at Nuro, building state-of-the-art models to predict surrounding traffic behavior for onboard and simulation use in autonomous driving.
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable, machine learning-based prediction systems to generate multi-modal, realistic, and kinematically feasible trajectories.
- Conduct cutting-edge research in generative sequence modeling and sequential decision-making (e.g., scalable generative sequence modeling, marginal/conditional/joint distribution modeling for interactive agents, Transformer-based encoder-decoder architectures, large generative models and diffusion models, controllability via conditioning and guidance).
- Collaborate with the Planning team to design realistic and controllable agents for closed-loop simulation enabling agent training via Reinforcement Learning (RL).
- Mitigate accumulated uncertainties across interconnected autonomy components.
- Collaborate across autonomy teams to develop holistic solutions, propose ideas, and prioritize.
- Derive practical, deployable solutions and see them deployed on real-world vehicles.
Qualifications
- M.Sc. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, or related field (preferred).
- Subject matter expertise in sequential decision-making, prediction, Imitation Learning, Deep Reinforcement Learning, generative modeling, large models, or ML for robotics.
- Strong programming skills in Python (required) and C++ (beneficial).
- Experience with ML frameworks such as PyTorch.
- 2+ years of deploying machine learning systems onboard, ideally in prediction.
- Publications in top conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, RSS, CoRL, ICRA, IROS).
- Strong collaboration and team-playing ability.
- Nice to have: Embodied AI for robotics, causal reasoning, model interpretability, joint prediction and planning, understanding of diffusion models.
Skills
Required:PythonPyTorch
Nice to have:C++
Benefits
- Base pay range: $193,930 - $291,150 (dependent on level, experience, location, qualifications).
- Annual performance bonus, equity, and competitive benefits package.
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Nuro
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