Nuro
Staff/Lead Machine Learning Engineer, Behavior & Planning
$235K–$352K
Mountain View, California (HQ) +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 7, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, California (HQ)
Nuro HQ - Mountain View, CA - Experience
- 7+ years building and deploying machine learning systems.
- Education
- M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads development and deployment of machine learning models for autonomous-vehicle behavior and planning, from research through on-road operation.
What you'll do
- Lead cross-team ML initiatives and set technical direction through deployment.
- Design, train, and productionize models for behavior and planning that generalize across geographies and vehicle platforms.
- Collaborate across autonomy teams, mentor engineers and researchers, and shape technical strategy.
What they ask for
- 7+ years building and deploying machine learning systems, including leadership of complex, multi-team initiatives.
- M.S. or Ph.D. in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong general ML foundations and understanding of the full ML development cycle, including deployment and onboard inference.
- Strong programming skills in Python (required) and/or C++; ability to lead initiatives and collaborate across teams.
Nice to have
- Prior autonomous-vehicle or robotics experience; familiarity with ML in an autonomy/planning stack.
- Experience mentoring or leading a team; familiarity with PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow.
Pay
$235,030 and $352,290 USD base salary
Tools
Python, C++, PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow
AI focus
Applied ML for autonomous driving behavior and planning, including foundation and world models, LLM/VLM reasoning, reinforcement and imitation learning, generative and diffusion models, and transformer-based prediction and planning.
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