Senior ML Research Scientist, VLM/VLA

Nuro

6 days ago

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Mountain View, California

Onsite

Full Time

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About this role

A Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model developer at Nuro focuses on advancing state-of-the-art models for autonomous driving systems, improving safe and robust decision-making in complex driving scenarios. The role involves developing multimodal models that connect scene understanding, contextual reasoning, and planning-relevant representations for real-world applications.

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M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, or related field5+ years of industry and/or research experience in machine learningStrong experience with vision-language models (VLMs), multimodal foundation models, VLAs, or related architecturesHands-on experience with large-scale model training, fine-tuning, and evaluationFamiliarity with Vision Transformers (ViTs) and large language models (LLMs)

About Nuro

nuro.ai

Nuro is an autonomous vehicle company that develops a scalable AI “driver” and purpose-built, electric driverless vehicles to automate local goods transportation and last-mile delivery. Its platform and compact vehicles enable retailers, restaurants, and logistics providers to offer frequent, low‑cost, safe local deliveries. Nuro emphasizes safety, regulatory compliance, and large-scale deployment, running commercial pilots and partnerships with retailers and municipalities. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, it was founded by former Google/Waymo engineers to transform local commerce through autonomy.