Staff ML Engineer, Behavior & Planning for Autonomy

Nuro; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Nuro is hiring a staff or lead ML engineer for Behavior and Planning. You will own technical leadership on models that shape how the Nuro Driver predicts, decides, plans, and generalizes across geographies and vehicle platforms.

You will work on foundation and world models, LLM/VLM reasoning, reinforcement and imitation learning, diffusion models, and transformer-based prediction and planning. The goal is to move from research ideas onto real vehicles while ensuring safety and scalability.

Qualifications

• Senior technical leadership experience building and deploying ML systems.
• Strong ML foundations across model architectures, training, and evaluation.
• Background in robotics, AI, machine learning, or related technical fields.
• Experience with sequential decision making, prediction, generative modeling, or reinforcement learning.

Responsibilities

• Lead ML initiatives across prediction, decision making, and planning
• Train and productionize models for safe, natural driving behavior
• Build behavior systems that generalize across cities and vehicle platforms
• Partner with perception, simulation, evaluation, ML infrastructure, and autonomy teams

Skills

Leadership

ML foundations

Sequential decision making

Robotics background

Job description

Nuro is hiring a staff or lead ML engineer for Behavior and Planning. You will own technical leadership on models that shape how the Nuro Driver predicts, decides, plans, and generalizes across geographies and vehicle platforms.

You will work on foundation and world models, LLM/VLM reasoning, reinforcement and imitation learning, diffusion models, and transformer-based prediction and planning. The goal is to move from research ideas onto real vehicles while ensuring safety and scalability.