Developing and implementing technologies for Nuro’s planning stack to enable safe, driverless autonomy.
Requirements
- Robotics expertise in areas such as path planning, motion planning, trajectory generation, behavior planning, optimal control.
- Machine learning experience with techniques such as deep learning, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, transformers, and diffusion models.
- Strong software development skills and Python/C++ coding proficiency (C++ preferred).
- Experience in optimizing model performance through efficient processing, visualization, and analysis of large datasets.
- Hands-on experience developing software for safety-critical systems (bonus).
- Experience with distributed training (bonus).
- Experience with inference optimization (bonus).
Responsibilities
- Design and implement novel robotics and machine learning technologies for the Nuro Driver.
- Implement practical solutions with production-ready software, to deploy new technologies on real vehicle platforms in a safe, performant, and scalable way.
- Work cross-functionally with engineers across behavior, perception, mapping, and ML research to advance the state-of-the-art in autonomous driving.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior members of the behavior team
- Develop state-of-the-art algorithms to enable the Nuro Driver to safely and reliably plan and navigate complex situations in a human-like manner.
- Implement intelligent strategies on how to leverage diverse data to have the biggest impact in our learned behavior stack.
- Develop and optimize model performance through efficient processing, visualization, and analysis of large datasets.
Other
- PhD or Masters Degree in robotics, computer science, mechanical/aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, mathematics, or related field.
- Ability to collaborate within and across teams and derive best solutions from cross-functional interactions.
- Desire to work at the edge of research and development, bringing algorithms from research into production.
- At Nuro, we celebrate differences and are committed to a diverse workplace that fosters inclusion and psychological safety for all employees.
