Senior Perception ML Engineer for Autonomous Driving

Kindredventures; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 194,000 - 291,000; Full time

Job summary

Nuro is seeking a Perception ML Engineer to develop and improve perception models for autonomous driving, with ownership of modeling, training, and evaluation. Your work will impact how systems understand rare scenarios and scale safely.

Join a team applying ML to push autonomy forward, collaborating with ML Data Infrastructure and autonomy engineers to deliver measurable perception improvements across geographies.

Qualifications

• BS in a quantitative field such as CS, robotics, or physics.
• 4+ years of industry software engineering with Python and C/C++.
• Hands-on depth in developing and training ML models.
• Perception experience or strong growth trajectory in ML.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve perception models with architecture decisions.
• Design experiments and ablations to validate improvements.
• Diagnose model failures and analyze training data limitations.
• Collaborate with autonomy and infrastructure engineers to translate data into model improvements.

Skills

Python

C/C++

ML modelling

Cross-functional leadership

Software engineering

Autonomy/Perception

Education

BS in CS/Robotics/Math

Job description

Nuro is seeking a Perception ML Engineer to develop and improve perception models for autonomous driving, with ownership of modeling, training, and evaluation. Your work will impact how systems understand rare scenarios and scale safely.

Join a team applying ML to push autonomy forward, collaborating with ML Data Infrastructure and autonomy engineers to deliver measurable perception improvements across geographies.