Automation Chemistry Science Lead & Developer Relations

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 224,000 - 431,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara seeks a Senior Developer Relations, Automated Synthetic Chemistry Science Lead to coordinate science streams across experimental science, automation, and AI-driven platforms. You will translate research objectives into experimental priorities and oversee campaigns spanning chemistry, catalysis, and data processing.

The role emphasizes leading large interdisciplinary teams, building standardized metadata, and integrating automated experimentation with analytics.

Qualifications

• PhD (or equivalent experience) with 10+ years of hands-on experience in experimental science, chemical engineering, material science, robotics, automation, analytical science, platform development, AI enabled science workflows, or equivalent experience.
• Deep expertise in experimental optimization and principled reasoning about parameters, scope, conditions, tradeoffs, failure modes and transferability.
• Experience leading large interdisciplinary teams across experimental science, automation, machine learning, data platforms, analytical science, software engineering, and partner execution.
• Ability to operate in matrixed partner governance, translating scientific direction into technical execution and leadership-ready decisions.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the operating plan across research priorities, technical execution, and program achievements.
• Convert research objectives into experimental priorities, parameter-space development, campaign planning, and success criteria.
• Lead research initiatives spanning synthetic chemistry, catalysis, process chemistry, machine learning, automated systems, and data processing.
• Build standardized experimental traces capturing outcomes, metadata, quality-control signals, and analytical summaries.
• Guide AI systems for feasibility assessment, outcome prediction, optimization, scope exploration, and campaign orchestration.
• Integrate automated experimentation, analytical data streams, data curation, model retraining, and campaign decisions into a closed-loop operating model.
• Establish governance: reviews, decision logs, risk tracking, quality thresholds, and addressing blocking issues.
• Prepare recurring workstream readouts for program leadership.

Skills

Experimental optimization

Automation platforms

AI-enabled science workflows

Machine learning

Leadership

Education

PhD or equivalent experience

Tools

GPU computing

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara seeks a Senior Developer Relations, Automated Synthetic Chemistry Science Lead to coordinate science streams across experimental science, automation, and AI-driven platforms. You will translate research objectives into experimental priorities and oversee campaigns spanning chemistry, catalysis, and data processing.

The role emphasizes leading large interdisciplinary teams, building standardized metadata, and integrating automated experimentation with analytics.