Senior ML Research Scientist, VLM/VLA

Job description

Who We Are Nuro is a self-driving technology company on a mission to make autonomy accessible to all. Founded in 2016, Nuro is building the world’s most scalable driver, combining cutting-edge AI with automotive-grade hardware. Nuro licenses its core technology, the Nuro Driver™, to support a wide range of applications, from robotaxis and commercial fleets to personally owned vehicles. With technology proven over years of self-driving deployments, Nuro gives the automakers and mobility platforms a clear path to AVs at commercial scale—empowering a safer, richer, and more connected future. About the Role: In this role, you will develop vision-language-action models for our onboard Behavior & Planning stack, with the goal of improving safe and robust decision-making in complex, long-tail driving scenarios. You will work on multimodal models that connect scene understanding, contextual reasoning, and planning-relevant representations for real-world autonomous driving. This role is focused on advancing state-of-the-art VLAs for autonomy, including model development, large-scale training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and onboard optimization. You will work closely with partners across behav...