Staff/Lead Machine Learning Engineer, Behavior and Planning

What the role actually is Nuro is hiring a staff or lead ML engineer for Behavior and Planning. The role owns technical leadership on models that shape how the Nuro Driver predicts, decides, plans, and generalizes across new geographies and vehicle platforms. The posting calls out foundation and world models, LLM/VLM reasoning, reinforcement and imitation learning, diffusion models, and transformer-based prediction and planning. The important part is that the work is meant to move from research ideas onto real vehicles. What you would work on Lead ML initiatives across prediction, decision making, and planning Train and productionize models for safe, natural driving behavior Build behavior systems that generalize across cities and vehicle platforms Partner with perception, simulation, evaluation, ML infrastructure, and autonomy teams What they are asking for Senior technical leadership experience building and deploying ML systems Strong ML foundations across model architectures, training, and evaluation Background in robotics, AI, machine learning, or related technical fields Experience with sequential decision making, prediction, generative modeling, or reinforcement learning Why this one is worth a look Behavior and planning is where autonomy becomes legible to people on the road. This role is worth watching because it joins frontier ML methods with the messy product question of whether a robot's choices feel safe, predictable, and scalable. #J-18808-Ljbffr Nuro