Senior Research Scientist, Human-AI Perception and Interaction

Nvidia

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Santa Clara, CA
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The Senior Research Scientist, Human-AI Perception and Interaction joins the Human Performance and Experience team at NVIDIA Research. In this role, you will propose, research, prototype, and test innovative ideas while publishing at top conferences and patenting novel inventions. You will create interactive demonstrations, mentor interns, and collaborate with engineers to facilitate technology transfer from research to product. The position requires a Ph.D. or equivalent research experience in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Cognitive Science, along with proficiency in Python, Rust, and C++. You must have experience with AI model training frameworks like PyTorch and a track record of studying human behaviors in gaming, driving, or robotics. The work focuses on bridging vision science, HCI, and HRI to create systems that perceive, learn, and collaborate with people.

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Median $216250 from 45 postings across 16 companies.

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Python Rust C++ PyTorch Deep Learning LLMs VLMs Multi-GPU Training Multi-modal Foundation Models Machine Learning Robotics

What you'll do

  • Propose, research, prototype, and test innovative research ideas.
  • Publish research findings at top-tier conferences and patent novel inventions.
  • Create working interactive demonstrations to showcase research ideas.
  • Participate in technology transfer to move research ideas into production products.
  • Study human behaviors in domains such as gaming, driving, and robot interaction.
  • Apply human behavior models to machine learning applications or vice versa.
  • Train and evaluate AI models using frameworks like PyTorch.

What we're looking for

  • Ph.D. or equivalent research experience in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Cognitive Science, or a related field.
  • 3+ years of relevant work experience.
  • Excellent track record of publications in top-tier conferences such as SIGGRAPH, CHI, HRI, ICRA, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, CoG, or ETRA.
  • Experience studying human behaviors in domains like gaming, driving, or interacting with robots.
  • Proficiency with Python, Rust, and/or C++.
  • Experience with AI model training and evaluation frameworks, such as PyTorch.
  • Demonstrated public portfolio including repositories, OSS contributions, notebooks, packages, or technical blog posts with code (preferred).
  • Experience with multi-node, multi-GPU training and inference workflows (preferred).

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