Senior/Staff Machine Learning Research Scientist, Nuro
Generative Models for Behavior Modeling
$202.3-303.1k
+Annual performance bonus & Equity
Office located in Mountain View, CA
Autonomous delivery vehicle manufacturer
Open for applications
Autonomous delivery vehicle manufacturer
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$202.3-303.1k
+Annual performance bonus & Equity
Office located in Mountain View, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To better everyday life through robotics.
Role
Who you are
- You have deep expertise and prior experience in some or many of the following areas:
- You have a Ph.D. (preferable) with 3+ years experience on generative models
- You have subject matter expertise and research in one or more of the following areas: scalable generative and diffusion models, generative model alignment with reward/cost models, controllability, distillation, mode recovery, fine-tuning with closed-loop RL, applications to autonomous driving and robotics, and other experiences such as video generation, text-to-image generation, in-painting/out-painting and so on
- You have strong problem solving and programming skills in Python and/or C++
- 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 be a key member of the behavior team focused on solving the hardest autonomy problems. Here you will explore novel and advanced machine learning methods to solve practical real-world challenging problems in autonomous driving
- You will be focusing on researching and developing state of the art generative models, with an emphasis on diffusion models, and bring advancements in this field to the AV domain
- Work on scalable generative models, with a focus on diffusion models for behavior models
- Learn a distribution of future behaviors of our autonomous vehicle and other onroad agents (e.g. pedestrians, vehicles, cyclists). Apply the model to various tasks such as planning, prediction, data generation, simulation, and so on
- Research SoTA algorithms to improve generative models’ performance and optimize their latency. This includes alignment with reward/cost models, controllability, model scaling up and distillation, mode recovery, fine-tuning with closed-loop RL, etc
- Research experiences we are looking for are generative models and diffusion models for autonomous driving and robotics. However, experiences in video generation, text-to-image generation, image in-painting/out-painting, etc. are also welcome
- Collaborate across autonomy teams while developing holistic solutions to top autonomy challenges. Understand issues, propose ideas, prioritize work and develop solutions to solve them
- 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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Founders
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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