Research Scientist, Human‑AI Perception and… at NVIDIA · Santa…

Summary: NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. They are looking for a Research Scientist to advance AI in gaming and robotics by understanding human interaction to shape perception and behavior. Responsibilities: - Propose, research, prototype and test innovative research ideas - Publish at top conferences and patent novel inventions - Collaborate with other research team members, external researchers, and mentor interns - Create working interactive demonstrations to showcase your research ideas - Participate in technology transfer with engineers around NVIDIA as ideas "graduate" from research to product Required Qualifications: - Ph.D. or equivalent research experience in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Cognitive Science or related field - Excellent track record of publications in top-tier conferences (SIGGRAPH, CHI, HRI, ICRA, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, CoG, ETRA, etc.) - Experience with studying human behaviors in related application domains such as gaming, driving, interacting with robots, etc - Proficiency with Python, Rust, and/or C++ - Experience with AI model training and evaluation frameworks, like PyTorch Preferred Qualifications: - Demonstrated public portfolio (e.g. repositories, OSS contributions, notebooks, packages, or technical blog posts with code) - Experience with multi-node, multi-GPU training and inference workflows - Familiarity with and interest in modern deep learning models, including working with large-scale, multi-modal foundation models (such as recent LLMs, VLMs) - A track record of applying human behavior models to machine learning applications, or applying machine learning to understand or model human behavior Required Skills: PhD in Computer Science, related field, Research publication, Human behavior study, Gaming domain experience, Robotics domain experience, Python programming, Rust programming, C++ programming, AI model training, AI model evaluation, PyTorch framework Benefits: Equity, Benefits