Staff/Lead Machine Learning Engineer, Behavior & Planning

Job overview

Compensation is $235,030–$352,290 per year. The Staff/Lead Machine Learning Engineer, Behavior & Planning role is onsite in Mountain View, CA. in the structural listing; the posting states a base pay range of $235,030–$352,290 per year for the scoped level, plus potential annual performance bonus and equity. Nuro develops Level 4 autonomous driving technology and a universal autonomy platform. The engineer provides technical leadership on the Behavior & Planning team, turning large-scale driving data and machine learning research into deployed vehicle behavior. The work supports safe, comfortable, and natural driving across new geographies and vehicle platforms through model development, cross-team collaboration, and technical direction.

What you'll do

• Lead machine learning initiatives across the autonomy stack from problem framing through on-road deployment
• design, train, and productionize models
• build behavior and planning models that generalize to new geographies and vehicle platforms
• collaborate with Perception, Simulation & Evaluation, and ML Infrastructure & Data teams
• mentor engineers and researchers
• help shape roadmaps and technical strategy.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

machine learning engineer

staff/lead

behavior & planning

autonomous driving

applied machine learning

foundation models

reinforcement learning

vehicle deployment

mountain view ca

nuro

$235,030–$352,290 base range

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Annual performance bonus eligibility, equity, and a competitive benefits package.

Why this role

Technical leadership spanning research through deployment on real vehicles; work across foundation and world models, LLM/VLM reasoning, reinforcement and imitation learning, generative models, and transformer-based prediction and planning.

About the employer

Nuro is hiring for this role. Industry: Engineering Services. Sector: 54.