Nuro is looking to tackle plan generation challenges in autonomous driving by developing novel solutions that generate safe, comfortable, and efficient driving behaviors in challenging real-world situations.
Requirements
- Prior experience working with generative models in the lab, in industry, or both.
- Research experiences in generative models, particularly diffusion models, flow matching and energy-based models, for robotics, including manipulation, path planning, and autonomous driving.
- Experiences in vision-language-action models, reinforcement learning for generative model optimization, video generation, text-to-image generation, diffusion models for LLMs, world foundation models, and other applications of generative modeling are a bonus!
- Strong problem solving and programming skills in Python and/or C++
- Demonstrated research publications in top conferences (e.g. NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, RSS, CoRL etc.)
Responsibilities
- Develop and scale state-of-the-art generative models—especially diffusion architectures, flow-matching techniques, and energy-based models —for autonomous plan generation.
- Build generative models with foundation models.
- Leverage large language models and world foundation models for reasoning, decision making and multi-modality generation.
- Optimize generative models using reinforcement learning to improve interactive reasoning.
- Explore reward modeling/learned verifier using generative models.
- Develop controllable generative models to guide the generation process towards desired goals, conditions and rewards.
- Collaborate across autonomy teams while developing holistic solutions to top autonomy challenges.
Other
- You have a Ph.D. (preferable) or M.Sc. with 3+ years of experience working with generative models in the lab, in industry, or both.
- Strong culture fit and good team player
- At Nuro, we celebrate differences and are committed to a diverse workplace that fosters inclusion and psychological safety for all employees. Nuro is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and expressly prohibits any form of workplace discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics.
