Principal Data Scientist, Cloud Gaming and AI

Nvidia

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Remote
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Salary
$248,000–$379,500 / yr
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Full-time
Posted
127 days ago
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Nvidia is a leading designer of graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-chip units, powering gaming, professional visualization, data centers, and artificial intelligence workloads. Industry: Semiconductors & AI Computing

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TL;DR · Principal Data Scientist, Cloud Gaming and AI

JOB TITLE: Principal Data Scientist - Cloud Gaming and AI The Principal Data Scientist - Cloud Gaming and AI joins the GeForce NOW cloud team to provide technical leadership for global GPU Compute services. This role involves designing and deploying AI/ML solutions for real-time user diagnostics, LLM chatbots, and suspicious activity detection. You will build prescriptive analytic pipelines, forecasting models, and constraint optimization solvers to improve capacity management and server efficiency. Key responsibilities include wrangling petabytes of data to provide actionable insights for user retention and engineering productivity. The technology stack includes Python, R, SQL, Java, Pandas, Spark, Databricks, MLFlow, Delta Lake, Grafana, Kibana, Kubeflow, Elyra, Kubernetes, Gitlab, CI/CD, MLOps, Kafka, and SQS. You will utilize Scikit-learn, Pytorch, and TensorFlow to solve complex cloud gaming performance and streaming problems.

What does a Data Scientist earn in California?

Median $214500 from 114 postings across 26 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Provide technical leadership to data scientists and engineers for global GPU compute service deployments.
  • Design and implement AI/ML solutions to generate actionable insights and real-time prescriptive analytic pipelines.
  • Build and deploy scalable solutions for user diagnostics, LLM chatbots, and suspicious activity detection.
  • Develop forecasting models and constraint optimization solvers to improve capacity management and server efficiency.
  • Create predictive models with explainability for user retention, churn analysis, and targeted outreach campaigns.
  • Wrangling petabytes of data using statistical and LLM models to provide real-time insights for the organization.
  • Build multi-agent self-learning harnesses to improve engineering productivity for analytics and deployments.

What we're looking for

  • Master’s/PhD or equivalent experience in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Operations Research, or a related quantitative field.
  • 15+ years of software experience for large-scale and reliable production deployments.
  • 8+ years of proven experience in Statistics/AI/ML.
  • Hands-on expertise in Python, SQL, and Java programming languages.
  • Proficiency with modeling frameworks such as Scikit-learn, Pytorch, and TensorFlow for large projects.
  • Experience with data storage and processing tools including Spark, Pandas, and Delta Lake.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills to convey data insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience in User Retention Modeling, LLMs, Time Series Forecasting, or Operations Research (preferred).

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