Senior Machine Learning Research Scientist, Active Learning

Nuro is a self-driving technology company on a mission to make autonomy accessible to all. Founded in 2016, Nuro is building the world’s most scalable driver, combining cutting-edge AI with automotive-grade hardware. Nuro licenses its core technology, the Nuro Driver™, to support a wide range of applications, from robotaxis and commercial fleets to personally owned vehicles. With technology proven over years of self-driving deployments, Nuro gives the automakers and mobility platforms a clear path to AVs at commercial scale—empowering a safer, richer, and more connected future.

The mandate of the Learned Behavior team is to use advanced machine learning techniques to accelerate software progress. In this role, you will be working as a member of the Learned Behavior team and leveraging the cutting edge of machine learning research to solve practical, real-world, challenging problems. You will focus on developing and implementing innovative strategies in active learning, data curation, and quality research, to enhance the effectiveness and adaptability of our core behavior prediction, planning, foundation models, LLMs, and VLMs. Your contributions will play a crucial role in optimizing our data utilization, model performance, and decision-making processes for real-world autonomous driving applications. If you love solving challenging new problems with a mindset of deriving practical solutions to eventually be used on the vehicle, come join us!

• Develop and implement innovative active learning methods to refine data selection, filtering, and mixing strategies for our core behavior prediction, planning, foundation models, LLMs, and VLMs.
• Lead initiatives to improve data quality, detect anomalies, and manage out-of-distribution examples to ensure robust model training and deployment.
• Work as a part of an autonomy team to build effective and efficient ML data pipelines and processes.
• Experiment quickly and fail fast, develop and leverage state-of-the-art ML models and techniques, and publish blog posts and/or papers highlighting successes.
• Work with data collection and labeling teams to set a high quality bar for incoming data 
• Develop practical ML solutions, deploy models to the NuroDriver, and witness their real-world impact on the road.

You have deep expertise and prior experience in some or many of the following areas:

• You have 4+ years of experience working with machine learning using deep networks and large volumes of data either in industry or as part of a PhD.
• You have subject matter expertise and research in one or more of the following areas: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Robotics (bonus), and have some familiarity with the state of the art in ML for autonomous driving and data utilization (bonus).
• You have an expertise in at least one of the following domains: 
  • Active learning, curriculum learning
  • Model uncertainty, density estimation, anomaly detection
  • Data selection and quality research for LLMs and VLMs
• You have strong problem-solving and programming skills in C++ and Python
• Strong culture fit and good team player
• You have an M.Sc. or Ph.D. focusing on one or more of the following areas: Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, or a closely related field
• Demonstrated research publications in any of the major conferences is a bonus (RSS, ICRA, CoRL, CVPR, ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, ICCV, AAAI, etc.)

At Nuro, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. For this position, the reasonably expected pay range is between $183,825 and $275,975/year for the level at which this job has been scoped. Your base pay will depend on several factors, including your experience, qualifications, education, location, and skills. In the event that you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range would apply. This position is also eligible for an annual performance bonus, equity, and a competitive benefits package.

At Nuro, we celebrate differences and are committed to a diverse workplace that fosters inclusion and psychological safety for all employees. Nuro is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and expressly prohibits any form of workplace discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics.