Senior Research Scientist, Rendering

What you'll do

• Invent and publish novel methods to improve path traced imagery quality and performance.
• Develop and implement prototypes of research ideas into functional code.
• Transfer successful research findings and technologies to NVIDIA product teams.
• Solve complex problems in physically based sampling, lighting, and denoising.
• Integrate theoretical statistical advances with AI techniques for rendering improvements.
• Optimize rendering algorithms to ensure they are performant and efficient for real-time use.
• Define team research goals and provide guidance to other researchers and interns.

What we're looking for

• PhD or equivalent experience with a strong publication record, leadership in shipped renderers, or widely respected public presentations.
• 10+ years of combined experience as a graduate student, industry/academic researcher, rendering engineer, or applied researcher.
• Track record of high-quality artifacts such as shipped games, films, or publications on path tracing, sampling, lighting, and denoising.
• Proven ability to make code performant, efficient, and real-time.
• Deep understanding of rendering theory, sampling, and graphics systems.
• Strong coding skills in C/C++, GPU programming models, parallel programming, and Python.
• Understanding of and interest in advancing sampling algorithms like ReSTIR (preferred).
• Track record of research ideation and tech transfer of productized research (preferred).