Generative Modeling Research Scientist for Autonomous Planning

The Robot Age; Mountain View, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Nuro is seeking a research scientist to advance generative modeling for planning in autonomous driving. The role centers on applying cutting-edge ML research to planning under uncertainty, influencing how learned models support real-world robot decisions.

Based in Mountain View within Nuro's autonomy organization, the role leans toward research while ensuring outputs inform safety, evaluation, and deployment in production autonomy systems.

Qualifications

• ML research experience in generative modeling, planning, robotics, or autonomous driving
• Ability to design experiments and interpret model behavior in physical systems
• Comfort working with large-scale data and safety-sensitive evaluation
• Interest in translating research into practical autonomy systems

Responsibilities

• Research generative modeling approaches for autonomous planning
• Build and evaluate models against simulation and driving data
• Connect learned planning methods to production autonomy constraints
• Collaborate with autonomy teams working across prediction, planning, and evaluation

Skills

ML research

Generative modeling

Planning

Robotics

Autonomous driving

Job description

Nuro is seeking a research scientist to advance generative modeling for planning in autonomous driving. The role centers on applying cutting-edge ML research to planning under uncertainty, influencing how learned models support real-world robot decisions.

Based in Mountain View within Nuro's autonomy organization, the role leans toward research while ensuring outputs inform safety, evaluation, and deployment in production autonomy systems.