Senior Software Engineer, Perception ML

About the Role

We're a team applying ML to push autonomy performance forward. As a Perception ML Engineer, you'll develop and improve perception models, with ownership of modeling, training, and evaluation. Your work will directly impact how autonomous systems understand rare scenarios, adapt to global geographies, and scale safely.

Design and advance perception models that

• Improve scene understanding from real sensor data, including 3D and spatial representations
• Generalize across sensor platforms, geographies, and rare driving scenarios
• Meet requirements for model quality and onboard inference runtime

Tailor Your Impact

• Applied ML Depth: Own model architecture, loss design, training, and experiments that deliver measurable perception improvements.
• Collaborative Delivery: Partner with ML Data Infrastructure and autonomy engineers, contributing across the stack when needed while keeping primary ownership in modeling.

About You

• BS in Computer Science, Robotics, Statistics, Physics, Math or another quantitative area.
• 4+ years of industry software engineering experience with Python fluency and C/C++ familiarity. Proven ability to lead cross-functional technical projects from design to completion.
• You have hands-on depth in developing, training, debugging, and improving ML models.
• You bring perception experience, or an exceptionally strong growth trajectory with evidence of quickly building depth and delivering substantive ML results in new domains.

Bonus Points

• Experience with occupancy, 3D scene understanding, or onboard perception models.
• Familiarity working with synthetic or autonomous driving data.

Pay and benefits

At Nuro, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. For this position, the reasonably expected pay range is between $193,930.00 and $291,150.00/year for the level at which this job has been scoped. Your base pay will depend on several factors, including your experience, qualifications, education, location, and skills. In the event that you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range would apply. This position is also eligible for an annual performance bonus, equity, and a competitive benefits package.