Sam Bateman
Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Semantic Mapping And Perception at Nuro
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Bateman is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer and PhD student focused on robot learning, semantic mapping, and perception, with a decade of experience building autonomy stacks at Nuro. He has progressed through hands-on roles from localization and mapping engineer to senior MLE leading semantic perception efforts, combining academic research from Princeton and Colorado with production robotics. Sam’s background spans research internships (MIT Lincoln Lab), lab work in autonomous vehicle systems, and independent software contracting, giving him a rare blend of rigorous research, embedded/system-level engineering, and product-driven deployment. Known for translating cutting-edge perception research into robust, real-world mapping systems, he often bridges the gap between prototypes and scalable autonomy software.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at University of Colorado BoulderBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Metropolitan State University of DenverLittleton High School
English, French
Github Skills (37)
simulation10
javascript10
robotics10
css10
simulation-framework10
math10
dynamics10
perception10
nodejs10
react10
astrodynamics10
gtsam9
codebase9
certification9
cpp9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Cyberdr8gon/neovim-config
Aug 2022 - Dec 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
Cyberdr8gon/personal-website
Oct 2024 - Feb 2026
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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