Senior Research Scientist, Human-AI Perception and Interaction

Nvidia

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Work type: On-site
Location: Santa Clara, CA
Salary: $192,000–$304,750 / yr
Posted: 64 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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 · Senior Research Scientist, Human-AI Perception and Interaction

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As a Senior Research Scientist, Human-AI Perception and Interaction, you will join the Human Performance and Experience team to advance AI in gaming, robotics, and other fields by leveraging human intelligence and interaction to shape perception, learning, and behavior. You will propose, research, prototype, and test innovative ideas while publishing at top conferences, patenting inventions, creating interactive demonstrations, and mentoring interns. Your role involves collaborating with researchers and product engineers to facilitate technology transfer from research to production. The work focuses on bridging vision science, human-computer interaction, and human-robot interaction to create systems that collaborate with people safely. You will utilize Python, Rust, or C++, along with PyTorch for model training and evaluation. Relevant expertise includes studying human behaviors in gaming or robotics and working with multi-modal foundation models like LLMs and VLMs.

What does a Research Scientist earn?

Median $216250 from 42 postings across 13 companies.

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Skills

Python Rust C++ PyTorch Deep Learning LLMs VLMs Multi-GPU Training Machine Learning HCI Robotics

What you'll do

Propose, research, prototype, and test innovative research ideas in human-AI perception and interaction.
Publish original research findings at top-tier academic conferences.
Patent novel inventions resulting from your research activities.
Create working interactive demonstrations to showcase research concepts.
Participate in technology transfer to move research ideas into production products.
Mentor interns and collaborate with external researchers.
Apply human behavior models to machine learning applications or use ML to model human behavior.

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, and ETRA.
Experience studying human behaviors in domains like gaming, driving, or interacting with robots.
Proficiency in Python, Rust, and/or C++.
Experience with AI model training and evaluation frameworks such as PyTorch.
Experience with multi-node, multi-GPU training and inference workflows.
Familiarity with modern deep learning models, including large-scale, multi-modal foundation models like LLMs and VLMs.