Nuro
Robotics · Autonomous delivery
- HQ
- Mountain View, US
- Founded
- 2016
- Website
- nuro.ai
Nuro currently has 39 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Autonomous Driving System Safety Lead, Autonomous Vehicle Operator, Houston (Overnight Shift, 12-Month Duration), Director of Engineering, Eval Platform, ML Research Scientist, Prediction & Smart Agents, Machine Learning Research Scientist, Behavior Planning and Prediction . Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Nuro's active AI hiring is concentrated in: data (44%), agents (23%), evaluation (15%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Nuro is hiring AI talent in: United States (39 roles).
Job postings at Nuro most frequently reference: model serving, evals, inference infra, agent orchestration, embodied ai.
In the past 30 days, Nuro has posted 7 new AI-related roles. That is a -36% change versus the prior 30 days (11 → 7).
Nuro currently has 41 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles, 44%, are focused on data. Engineering is the dominant function, with 33 positions. Frequent tech tags include model_serving, inference_infra, and agent_orchestration. Over the last 30 days, Nuro has added 11 new AI roles, representing a 267% increase compared to the prior 30-day period.
Currently tracking 30 active AI roles, down 26% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Data · Engineering. Salary range $120k–$387k (avg $249k).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| ML Research Scientist, Prediction & Smart Agents Research Scientist role focused on building ML-based prediction systems for autonomous driving, involving generative sequence modeling, agent creation for simulation, and deployment on real vehicles. Requires expertise in sequential decision-making, prediction, generative modeling, and deep learning frameworks, with a preference for PhDs and publication records. | AgentPost-train | 9 |
| Senior ML Research Scientist, End-to-End Autonomous Driving Senior ML Research Scientist focused on end-to-end autonomous driving systems, leveraging large models for perception and behavior, and deploying solutions on Nuro's autonomous vehicles. Requires expertise in ML, robotics, and experience with large-scale datasets and compute. | ShipPost-train | 9 |
| Senior/Staff Machine Learning Research Scientist: Generative Modeling for Planning Research Scientist focused on developing and productizing state-of-the-art generative models (diffusion, flow matching, energy-based) for autonomous driving plan generation, leveraging foundation models and reinforcement learning for optimization and controllable generation. | Post-trainAgent | 9 |
| Machine Learning Research Scientist, Behavior Planning and Prediction Machine Learning Research Scientist focused on behavior planning and prediction for autonomous driving, using advanced ML techniques like self-supervised learning, OOD detection, RL, and generative modeling to solve real-world challenges and deploy solutions on vehicles. | Agent | 9 |
| Machine Learning Research Scientist: Generative Modeling for Planning Machine Learning Research Scientist focused on developing and scaling state-of-the-art generative models, particularly diffusion architectures, flow-matching, and energy-based models, for autonomous plan generation in robotics. The role involves leveraging foundation models (LLMs, world models), optimizing models with reinforcement learning and reward modeling, and developing controllable generative models. Collaboration across autonomy teams and deployment of models on NuroDriver are key aspects. | AgentPost-train | 9 |
| Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure, Optimization Software Engineer focused on ML infrastructure and optimization for Nuro's self-driving robots. Responsibilities include optimizing ML models using techniques like quantization and pruning, developing a model compiler framework, and collaborating with autonomy engineers to deploy optimized models. | Serve | 8 |
| Technical Lead, Evaluation Infrastructure Technical Lead for Evaluation Infrastructure at Nuro, focusing on building and owning a unified metrics, evaluation, and validation platform for L4 driverless deployment. The role involves setting technical direction, mentoring the team, and ensuring the quality and scale of evaluation pipelines, leveraging both heuristic and ML-based approaches. This role is critical for enabling rapid software iteration and rigorous safety validation in the autonomous driving domain. | Eval GateAgent | 8 |
| Senior/Staff Software Engineer, ML Data Nuro is seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to lead their ML Data engine, focusing on transforming autonomy data into high-value training signals for AI models. The role involves designing and building scalable data pipelines, developing data products for researchers, creating tools for data introspection, integrating labeling operations, and operationalizing active learning methods. This is a technical leadership role at the intersection of autonomy, ML, and infrastructure. | Data | 8 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Perception ML Data Nuro is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Perception ML Data team. This role focuses on bridging ML innovation and autonomy infrastructure by designing and advancing systems for curating geographically diverse datasets using VLMs, developing synthetic data frameworks across sensor modalities, and optimizing ML-powered validation of data quality and model readiness. The engineer will work across autonomy, infrastructure, databases, simulation, and ML development, with a focus on applied ML and systems rigor for scalable data curation and annotation, quantifying synthetic data fidelity, and building tools to surface data gaps impacting perception model performance. | Data | 8 |
| Technical Lead Manager, Autonomy Evaluation and Intelligence Lead the technical roadmap for systems that validate and verify the intelligence of Nuro's self-driving car technology. This involves developing evaluation tooling, designing intelligent agents and metrics to measure ML model performance, and closing the learning loop by identifying and refining behavioral weaknesses. The role requires defining the technical architecture for unified, automated, data-driven validation. | Eval GateAgent | 8 |
| Software Engineer, AI Platform - Intern Software Engineer Intern focused on AI Platform at Nuro, a self-driving technology company. The role involves working on various teams including Data Platform (annotation, ingestion, embedding search, evaluation infrastructure), Onboard Systems (integrating autonomy software), ML Infrastructure (distributed training, inference optimization), Simulation, and Technical Infrastructure. Requires a BS/MS candidate in CS, EE, Robotics, or related field graduating in December 2026 or later, with experience in backend API design, distributed systems, data processing, C++, Python, machine learning, and robotics software frameworks. | ServeData | 8 |
| Senior/Staff Engineer, Machine Learning - Online Mapping Nuro is seeking a Senior/Staff ML Engineer for their Online Mapping team to research, develop, and implement state-of-the-art online mapping models and algorithms for robot navigation. This role involves working with real-world robotics data, analyzing system performance, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate ML models into a larger autonomous system. The ideal candidate has a proven record of solving in-production ML problems, hands-on experience with training and evaluating modern ML models in AV/robotics/mapping/computer vision, and strong Python skills with deep learning frameworks. | AgentData | 8 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Behavior Planning Nuro is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Behavior Planning team to research, develop, and implement ML-driven planning systems for autonomous vehicles. The role involves designing and implementing novel robotics and ML technologies, working cross-functionally, and deploying production-ready software for safety-critical systems. Experience with deep learning, reinforcement learning, and optimizing model performance is required. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure Software Engineer focused on building and evolving the core ML infrastructure platform for Nuro's self-driving vehicles. Responsibilities include scaling automated resource provisioning (IaC), designing intelligent workload orchestration for massive-scale distributed training, building robust pipelines for petabyte-scale sensor data transformation, and implementing feature caching/storage solutions for low-latency access. The role aims to abstract complex cloud infrastructure for researchers and engineers to accelerate Nuro Driver™ development. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure Nuro is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with expertise in large-scale infrastructure, workload orchestration, and data processing to join their ML Infrastructure team. The role focuses on building and evolving the core platform that provides researchers and engineers with seamless access to compute and data resources, executing the technical strategy for automated resource provisioning, high-performance workload scheduling, and efficient feature management to accelerate the Nuro Driver™ development lifecycle. Responsibilities include scaling IaC pipelines for GPU/CPU nodes, optimizing workload orchestration, designing robust data pipelines for petabyte-scale sensor data, implementing feature caching and storage, and contributing to a unified ML platform. | DataServe | 7 |
| Senior/Staff Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure, Optimization Nuro is seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to build and improve core ML infrastructure for autonomy teams. The role focuses on optimizing ML models using techniques like quantization and distillation, developing a model compiler framework (FTL), and deploying optimized models on self-driving robots. This involves working across the full stack of ML solutions, from pipelines to optimized inference. | ServePost-train | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Collision Avoidance Testing Senior Software Engineer focused on testing and evaluating the collision avoidance systems of autonomous vehicles. This role involves designing and implementing simulation-based tests, analyzing results, quantifying risk, and reporting on safety claims to leadership. The engineer will work with onboard autonomy, data science, and simulation teams to ensure the safety and performance of the AV. | Eval GateAgent | 7 |
| Senior Product Manager, Mapping Product Manager to own the data infrastructure and labeling systems that power Nuro's autonomous vehicle development. Focus on data quality, building systems and workflows for ML and Behavior teams, shipping dashboards, defining labeling standards, and scaling infrastructure. Responsibilities include optimizing data collection, scaling infrastructure for a large fleet, raising labeling quality, and owning the labeling tooling roadmap. | Data | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Map Platform Nuro is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Map Platform team to build and improve HD map generation and release pipelines, develop scalable workflows for map data management, and create APIs for internal users. The role focuses on a machine learning-first approach to enhance geographic capabilities for autonomous driving systems. | Data | 7 |
| Technical Lead, Behavior & Triage Labeling Nuro is seeking a Technical Lead for their Behavior & Triage Labeling team. This role focuses on building and operating highly scalable and reliable distributed systems for data annotation, crucial for Nuro's ML-first autonomous driving technology. The team ensures access to high-quality labeled data by managing a comprehensive labeling stack, processing millions of sensor data points weekly, and collaborating closely with autonomy engineers. The role involves applying ML research to optimize the data labeling lifecycle and productionizing core infrastructure for the autonomy system. | Data | 7 |
| Software Engineer, ML Data Infrastructure Nuro is seeking a Software Engineer, ML Data Infrastructure to build and maintain scalable data pipelines for autonomous driving systems. This role involves designing systems for ingesting, processing, storing, and evaluating large volumes of data, including developing data annotation tools and applying ML techniques for data discovery and scaling labels. The focus is on creating robust data infrastructure to support the advancement of ML models for self-driving technology. | Data | 7 |
| Senior/Staff Software Engineer, ML Data Infrastructure Nuro is seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to build and scale ML data infrastructure for autonomous driving. This role involves designing and developing large-scale data pipelines, storage systems for evaluation metrics, and data annotation tools, with a focus on applied ML techniques to improve data quality and discovery. | Data | 7 |
| Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Labeling Platform Nuro is seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to build and operate a highly available, fault-tolerant data labeling platform for their autonomous driving systems. This role involves productionizing core infrastructure, improving label quality through data-driven metrics, and applying ML research to automate the labeling lifecycle. The ideal candidate will have experience in designing and operating scalable distributed data systems, Python/C++/Go programming skills, and leadership experience. | Data | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Onboard Autonomy Senior Software Engineer focused on onboard autonomy for self-driving vehicles. The role involves developing, integrating, and deploying real-time decision-making software on embedded systems, optimizing for performance and safety constraints, and ensuring robust on-robot integration and observability. Requires strong C++/Rust skills and experience shipping on-device software with real-world constraints. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Director of Engineering, Eval Platform Nuro is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead their Eval Platform team, which is responsible for the simulation, evaluation, and validation platform underpinning autonomy development and driverless readiness. This role involves defining the technical vision, execution strategy, and organizational structure for a multi-disciplinary organization. The platform is critical for rapid iteration, assessing safety and performance, and making data-driven deployment decisions. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in building simulation systems and evaluation platforms for large-scale ML/robotics systems, and proven experience leading engineering organizations. | Eval GateAgent | 7 |
| Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Fault Response Verification This role focuses on verifying the fault response of autonomous driving systems, defining system-level behavior requirements under fault conditions, implementing metrics, and building validation tooling. It involves stress testing the autonomy stack and contributing to risk assessment frameworks and safety cases, with a focus on ensuring a fail-operational system. | Eval GateAgent | 7 |
| Senior/Staff Systems Engineer, Autonomy Verification Senior/Staff Systems Engineer focused on verifying the safety and compliance of Nuro's autonomous driving system (Nuro Driver). This role involves defining requirements, designing metrics, developing test strategies (simulation, real-world), and collaborating with various teams to ensure the system is safe for deployment within its Operational Design Domain (ODD). The position requires experience with autonomous vehicle development/validation, understanding of autonomy architecture, and coding skills (Python/C++). | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer, AI Platform - New Grad Software Engineer, AI Platform - New Grad role at Nuro, focusing on the Data Platform team. Responsibilities include managing Nuro AI Driver's data, labels, and metrics, data annotation across perception, mapping, and behavior trajectory, data ingestion and mining using heuristics and embedding search, and supporting autonomy evaluation infrastructure. Requires a Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS, EE, Robotics, or related field, graduating by July 2026, with experience in large-scale distributed systems, data storage/processing, C++/Python, machine learning, and robotics software frameworks. | Data | 7 |
| Autonomous Driving System Safety Lead Nuro is seeking a Safety Lead for their Autonomous Driving System (ADS) team. This role will own and author safety claims for onboard and offboard software, including AI components, and ensure a comprehensive safety case is developed and maintained. The lead will manage safety claims, generate counter-arguments, review evidence, track safety performance indicators, and escalate risks to senior leadership. Experience in safety-critical industries and systems engineering is required. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Behavior Verification This role focuses on developing and implementing metrics to verify the driving behavior of an autonomous vehicle, using a combination of ML models and safety metrics. The engineer will evaluate these metrics on various test scenarios and generate reports to ensure safety for deployment. This role requires strong software development skills in Python or C++ and a deep understanding of robotic systems architecture. | Eval GateAgent | 7 |