Nuro
Robotics · Autonomous delivery
- HQ
- Mountain View, US
- Founded
- 2016
- Website
- nuro.ai
Nuro currently has 42 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles, 45%, are focused on data. Engineering is the dominant function, with 37 positions. Frequent tech tags include model serving, evals, and inference infrastructure, suggesting a focus on deployment and evaluation. Over the last 30 days, Nuro has posted 5 new AI roles, representing a 17% decrease compared to the previous 30-day period.
Currently tracking 31 active AI roles, down 16% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Data · Engineering. Salary range $120k–$387k (avg $243k).
Nuro currently has 18 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Autonomous Driving System Safety Lead, Machine Learning Research Scientist, Behavior Planning and Prediction , Machine Learning Research Scientist: Generative Modeling for Planning, Senior ML Research Scientist, End-to-End Autonomous Driving, Senior Software Engineer, Behavior Planning. Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Nuro's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (28%), serving infrastructure (28%), data (22%). 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 (18 roles).
Job postings at Nuro most frequently mention: Robotics, Machine Learning, Computer Architecture, Python, C++.
In the past 30 days, Nuro has posted 0 new AI-related roles.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Perception, Machine Learning/Computer Vision Senior Software Engineer focused on perception ML/CV for Nuro's autonomous driving platform. The role involves applying deep learning to challenges like detection, sensor fusion, tracking, and human intent understanding. Responsibilities include all stages from proof of concept to onboard deployment and performance monitoring, with a focus on training models for massive data utilization while maintaining low onboard latency. Experience with real-time deployment and optimizing accuracy vs. compute tradeoff is a bonus. | ServePost-train | 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 |
| 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 |