# Senior ML Research Scientist, End-to-End Autonomous Driving

**Company:** [Nuro](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/nuro)
**Location:** Mountain View, CA
**Role:** AI Research
**Salary:** $184k – $276k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Machine Learning, Python, C++, End-To-End Autonomous Driving, Imitation Learning, Reinforcement Learning, World Models, Lidar, Radar, Computer Vision
**Posted:** 2026-02-10

> Senior ML Research Scientist advances end-to-end ML models for autonomous driving, processing sensor data to behaviors using large-scale datasets and compute. Requires MS/PhD, 3+ years ML experience, Python expertise, and top-tier research publications.

## Job Description

## About the Work
- Work on and advance state-of-the-art end-to-end ML models for AV, from raw sensor data (camera, LiDAR, radar) to generating behaviors.
- Experiment quickly with massive real-world driving datasets and large-scale compute.
- Research novel solutions for AV challenges like long-tail events, safe reasoning, and comfort.
- Collaborate with autonomy teams to design roadmaps for learned solutions.
- Build data, training, evaluation, and validation pipelines with infrastructure teams.
- Develop and deploy performant solutions to the NuroDriver on-road.

## About You
- M.S. or Ph.D. (preferred) in Computer Science, AI, Robotics or related field, plus 3+ years experience.
- Expertise in Machine Learning (required), End-to-End AV Models, Imitation Learning, Reinforcement Learning, or World Models.
- Strong Python (required) and C++ (preferred) programming skills.
- Independent researcher with publications at CVPR, NeurIPS, ICML, etc.

**Compensation**: $183,825 - $275,975/year base pay, plus annual bonus, equity, and benefits.

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