Nuro

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.

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.

Nuro is seeking a Staff ML Research Scientist to solve perception, prediction, and planning problems in their self-driving system using advanced ML methods like foundation models, multi-modal LLMs, and reinforcement learning. The role involves applying and researching novel ML techniques, building ML data pipelines, and deploying autonomous software to public roads. Requires 6+ years of experience, an M.Sc. or Ph.D., and a strong publication record in relevant conferences.

Lead ML Research Scientist at Nuro, a self-driving technology company. The role focuses on solving perception, prediction, and planning problems using advanced ML methods like foundation models, multi-modal LLMs, generative models, and reinforcement learning. Responsibilities include applying and researching novel ML techniques, building ML data pipelines, providing technical leadership, and deploying autonomous software to public roads. Requires 6+ years of experience with an M.Sc. or Ph.D. in a related field, deep expertise in ML, Deep Learning, and Robotics, strong programming skills, and a publication record in major AI/ML conferences.

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.

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.

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.

This role focuses on building AI agent infrastructure and autoresearch systems to enhance developer productivity and ML research velocity within an engineering context. It involves designing and implementing agent orchestration, sandboxing, skill frameworks, and self-improving agents that run experiments and iterate on ML models. The role also includes creating AI-powered engineering tools for code generation, debugging, and improving quality and developer workflows through evaluation and observability systems.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nuro is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning to join their Sensor Data and Calibration team. The role focuses on developing synthetic sensor simulation models and algorithms using machine learning methods like NeRF or Gaussian splatting for generating realistic sensor data (images, lidar, radar).

Nuro is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning, Sensor Simulation to join their robotics team. The role involves researching, developing, and implementing state-of-the-art synthetic sensor simulation methods using machine learning techniques like NeRF or Gaussian splatting to generate realistic synthetic sensor data (images, lidar, radar). The engineer will analyze the realism and utility of this data and collaborate with autonomy and infrastructure teams.

Program Manager for Data Quality at Nuro, focusing on ML Operations. This role involves investigating annotation faults, auditing live pipelines, managing offshore annotation teams, and defining/measuring data quality standards for ML training. The goal is to ensure data quality directly impacts model safety and performance in autonomous vehicles.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nuro is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their ML Infrastructure team. The role focuses on building and evolving the core platform for seamless access to compute and data resources, executing 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 for GPU/CPU nodes, optimizing workload orchestration for distributed training, designing pipelines for petabyte-scale data transformation, and implementing feature caching/storage solutions.

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.

Technical Lead Manager for ML Platform Infrastructure at Nuro, focusing on building and scaling the core platform for autonomous driving ML development. Responsibilities include setting technical strategy, managing automated resource provisioning (IaC), intelligent workload scheduling, large-scale data ETL, feature caching/stores, and leading a team of engineers. Requires experience in ML Infrastructure, Backend Platform Engineering, or Distributed Systems with people management.

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.

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.

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++).

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.

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.

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.

Nuro is seeking a Senior/Staff Controls Engineer to develop production-level control software for their autonomous driving systems. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, investigating ML for vehicle dynamics, and implementing classical and modern controls methods. Experience with L2+ automated driving systems is required, with L4 experience being a plus.

This role focuses on testing and evaluating the collision avoidance capabilities of autonomous vehicles. It involves designing and implementing tests using simulation and real-world data, analyzing results, and reporting on residual risk to inform product changes and safety cases. The role requires strong software engineering skills, experience with simulation-based evaluation, and a deep understanding of robotics and autonomous systems.

Nuro is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning, Calibration to develop online and offline unstructured sensor calibration algorithms using robotics and machine learning expertise. The role involves researching, developing, and implementing ML methods with sensor data, analyzing algorithm performance, and integrating pipelines into the autonomy system. Experience with state estimation techniques and ML model training/evaluation is required.