Senior GPU-Native Numerical Algorithms Scientist (Remote)

NVIDIA Corporation; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 224,000 - 357,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation seeks an Applied Research Scientist to join our computational engineering team, designing GPU-native numerical methods that accelerate engineering simulation across NVIDIA platforms.

You will explore solver algorithms, build research prototypes, and evaluate on workloads in mechanics, multiphysics, and electromagnetics. Collaboration with CUDA-X, NVIDIA Research, universities, and industry partners will move promising ideas into production software.

Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent in computational mechanics, applied mathematics, scientific computing, CS, aerospace, mechanical, civil engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of relevant work/research experience.
• Experience with PDE discretization, finite element/volume, nonlinear solvers, sparse linear algebra, preconditioning, or HPC.
• Experience writing numerical software in C++ and Python; CUDA/GPU development experience.
• Ability to communicate technical tradeoffs clearly and collaborate across teams.

Responsibilities

• Invent and reformulate numerical algorithms co-designed for modern NVIDIA GPU architectures.
• Develop linear and nonlinear solvers, including Newton-Krylov, multigrid, domain decomposition, and preconditioning.
• Evaluate algorithms on workloads in mechanics, electromagnetics, CAE domains; adapt CPU methods for GPU.
• Collaborate with CUDA-X, Warp, NVIDIA Research, universities, and industry partners to move research into software.
• Shape long-term roadmap for GPU-native numerical methods and AI-native engineering methods.

Skills

C++

Python

CUDA

PDE

HPC

Numerics

Communication

Education

PhD or equivalent

Tools

PETSc

Trilinos

OpenFOAM

cuSPARSE

NVIDIA Warp

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation seeks an Applied Research Scientist to join our computational engineering team, designing GPU-native numerical methods that accelerate engineering simulation across NVIDIA platforms.

You will explore solver algorithms, build research prototypes, and evaluate on workloads in mechanics, multiphysics, and electromagnetics. Collaboration with CUDA-X, NVIDIA Research, universities, and industry partners will move promising ideas into production software.