Principal Multimodal Robotics Scientist

NVIDIA Corporation

Santa Clara (CA)

On-site

USD 192,000 - 357,000

Full time

14 days+

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NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara, California, is seeking a Senior Research Scientist focused on Multimodal Foundation Models and Robotics to advance humanoid robot foundations and embodied agents. You will design novel AI algorithms, develop scalable training methods, and deploy models in simulation and on real hardware.

Collaborate with researchers and engineers across NVIDIA to transfer discoveries into products and services.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Computer Science/Engineering or related field.
  • Minimum 5 years of research or industry experience in multimodal foundation models or robotics.
  • Strong programming skills in Python; proficiency in C++ and CUDA is a plus.
  • Experience with large-scale ML systems and compute infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement AI algorithms for humanoid robots and embodied agents.
  • Develop large-scale training and inference methods for foundation models.
  • Optimize deployment in physical simulation and on robot hardware.
  • Collaborate across research and engineering teams to transfer research to products.

Skills

Python
C++
CUDA
ROS
PyTorch
Jax
TensorFlow
ML systems

Education

PhD in Computer Science/Engineering or related

Tools

PyTorch
JAX
TensorFlow
ROS

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara, California, is seeking a Senior Research Scientist focused on Multimodal Foundation Models and Robotics to advance humanoid robot foundations and embodied agents. You will design novel AI algorithms, develop scalable training methods, and deploy models in simulation and on real hardware.

Collaborate with researchers and engineers across NVIDIA to transfer discoveries into products and services.

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