Senior/Staff Machine Learning Research Scientist: Generative Modeling for Planning
Mountain View, CA$193.9k - $352.3kfull-timePosted 7mo ago
About the role
Senior/Staff ML Research Scientist focused on generative modeling for planning in autonomous driving. Collaborates with Learned Behavior teams to develop and productize state-of-the-art generative models (diffusion, flow matching, energy-based models) for safe, efficient driving behaviors, with end-to-end ownership from research to deployment.
Responsibilities
- Develop and scale state-of-the-art generative models—especially diffusion architectures, flow-matching techniques, and energy-based models —for autonomous plan generation.
Qualifications
- Ph.D. (preferable) or M.Sc. with 3+ years of experience working with generative models
- Research experiences in generative models (diffusion, flow matching, energy-based models) for robotics/autonomous driving
- Experience with vision-language-action models, reinforcement learning for generative model optimization, video generation, text-to-image generation, diffusion models for LLMs, world foundation models a plus
- Strong problem solving and programming skills in Python and/or C++
- Demonstrated research publications in top conferences (e.g. NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, RSS, CoRL)
Skills
Required:Generative modelingPython and/or C++Research publication track record
Nice to have:Reinforcement learning for model optimization
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package (base pay, annual performance bonus, equity)
- Competitive benefits package
- Diversity and inclusion values
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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