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

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.

184k – 276kMountain View, CAAI ResearchOnsite3+ YOE
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About the role

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.

Skills

Machine LearningPythonC++End-To-End Autonomous DrivingImitation LearningReinforcement LearningWorld ModelsLidarRadarComputer Vision

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