Machine Learning Research Scientist, Nuro
Behavior Planning and Prediction
$167.2-250.8k
Plus annual performance bonus and equity
Office located in Mountain View, CA
Autonomous delivery vehicle manufacturer
Open for applications
Autonomous delivery vehicle manufacturer
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$167.2-250.8k
Plus annual performance bonus and equity
Office located in Mountain View, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To better everyday life through robotics.
Role
Who you are
- You have an M.Sc. or Ph.D. (preferable) focusing on one or more of the following areas: Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, or a closely related field
- You have subject matter expertise and research in one or more of the following areas: sequential decision making, Imitation Learning, Deep Reinforcement Learning, generative modeling, large models (pretraining/finetuning), machine learning for robotics
- You have strong problem solving and programming skills in Python (required) and C++ (beneficial)
- Strong culture fit and good team player
- Demonstrated research publications in top conferences (e.g. NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, RSS, CoRL etc.)
What the job involves
- In this role, you will work closely with the software vertical teams to understand their pain points and explore novel and advanced machine learning methods to solve practical real-world challenging problems
- Using self-supervised learning to learn robust representations, exploring techniques for out-of-distribution detection to solve long tail problems, adjusting reinforcement learning techniques for motion planning, working on trajectory prediction and motion planning, investigating the robustness of models to mitigate uncertainties, or trying to build an end-to-end driving system
- Research new machine learning problems and models
- Work on goal-based, conditional, and joint trajectory prediction and motion planning
- Mitigate the uncertainties accommodated through the Autonomy stack
- Build effective and efficient ML data pipelines
- Collaborate with autonomy teams to understand their pain points and priorities to define milestones of the corresponding roadmaps
- Derive practical solutions and deploy them on the NuroBot
Our take
Nuro offers custom-built autonomous vehicles for the delivery of physical goods, rather than people. Its vehicles have a distinctive, futuristic, design that has not only made the vehicles noticeable from a marketing point of view, but, has also made its vehicles stand out to other road users, improving safety.
Nuro is an exciting addition to the autonomous vehicle landscape. Without a passenger inside the vehicle, it has been able to sidestep some of the safety issues that have plagued other autonomous vehicle brands. Additionally, the company has landed several high-profile partners, including Uber, Walmart, Chipotle, and Kroger.
With home deliveries at an all-time high, many companies are looking for ways to get goods to customers’ homes as fast as possible. Low-cost, efficient services such as Nuro's offering are becoming increasingly attractive. The company is turning its focus to commercializing and scaling the production of its third-generation vehicle at a new facility in Southern Nevada as it hopes to expand its services across the US.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2021
$600m
SERIES D
Nov 2020
$500m
SERIES C
Total funding: $2.1bn
Company benefits
- Free Caltrain pass and commuter benefits
- Company stock options
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Earn it - We seek and expect excellence and are not afraid of hard work
- 1% better everyday - We continuously focus on improving both as individuals and as a company
- Find a way - We embrace uncertainty and thrive on solving the hardest problems
- Act now - We trust our team's judgment—everyone is a problem solver
- One team - Nuro only succeeds if we are all working toward a common goal
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
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Leadership
Jiajun Zhu
(CEO)After an MA in Computer Science at the University of Virginia, Jiajun worked as Principal Software Engineer at Google for over 8 years. He left this role in August 2016 to co-found Nuro with Dave.
Dave Ferguson
(President)Experienced Robotics Engineer with stints at Google (Computer Vision and Machine Learning Lead) and Intel (Senior Research Scientist). PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University.
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