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Nuro

Machine Learning Research Scientist, Behavior Planning and Prediction

$160K–$241K

Mountain View, California (HQ) +1 · Full-time · Posted Nov 3, 2023

Location
Mountain View, California (HQ)
Nuro HQ - Mountain View, CA
Education
M.Sc. or Ph.D. (preferable) in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, or a closely related field.

About the job

Research and develop machine-learning-based behavior planning and prediction systems that produce safe, feasible trajectories for autonomous vehicles, with solutions deployed on real-world vehicles.

What you'll do

  • Develop scalable machine-learning planning and prediction systems for autonomous driving.
  • Research generative sequence modeling and sequential decision-making, and address uncertainty across autonomy components.
  • Collaborate across autonomy teams to identify challenges, develop practical solutions, and deploy them on vehicles.

What they ask for

  • M.Sc. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, or a closely related field.
  • Expertise or research experience in one or more relevant areas, such as sequential decision-making, imitation learning, deep reinforcement learning, generative modeling, large models, or machine learning for robotics.
  • Strong problem-solving and programming skills in Python.
  • Demonstrated research publications in top conferences.

Nice to have

  • C++ programming skills.
  • Background in embodied AI for robotics, causal reasoning, model interpretability and explainability, or joint prediction and planning.

Pay

USD 160,360–USD 240,540 per year (base salary)

Tools

Python, C++

AI focus

Apply advanced machine learning to autonomous-vehicle behavior planning and prediction, including generative sequence modeling, sequential decision-making, uncertainty mitigation, and potentially end-to-end driving.

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