Senior Research Scientist, AI for Climate and Weather Simulation

Nvidia • Santa Clara, CA

128d • $184,000 - $299,000

About The Position

We are now seeking a Senior Research Scientist: AI for Climate & Weather Simulation! NVIDIA Research's AI Climate and Weather Simulation Team is looking for a senior research scientist. Our mission is to re-imagine technology across the Earth System Modeling stack using new ideas in AI on applied topics such as state estimation, convection-permitting AI atmosphere or ocean simulation, steerable climate state sampling for advanced informatics, multi-component autoregressive Earth System prediction, reasoning over multi-modal climate data -- and related frontier topics. We are hunting for a proven, creative, and independent senior researcher with exceptional technical skills and outstanding publication or invention record, to help us invent that future. Come join a diverse research group that collaboratively works on hard and meaningful interdisciplinary problems with passion, drive and curiosity; that consistently publishes at top venues in climate science and artificial intelligence; and that values real impact on NVIDIA products and the world of academic and government climate prediction at large.

Requirements

• Ph.D. in the geophysical sciences, computer science, applied math/statistics, or related fields.
• At least 4 years of research experience in deep learning, computer vision, generative AI, or related fields.
• Outstanding research portfolio including multiple first-author publications in reputable conferences or journals that make good use of AI.
• Excellent taste in problem selection.
• Proficiency with distributed deep learning training frameworks, e.g., PyTorch.
• Excellent software engineering skills and experience in scaling algorithms for high computational loads.
• Experience developing in a changing software environment and ability to drive research projects end-to-end -- including the messy parts.

Nice To Haves

• Synergistic expertise in climate domain science, nonlinear physics, and familiarity with associated synthetic and observational datasets and physical simulation systems.
• Excellent communication & collaboration skills; ability to variably lead or contribute as needed.
• Drive to transfer technology to products.

Responsibilities

• Propose, research, prototype and test innovative research ideas.
• Publish groundbreaking work at top conferences and journals.
• Collaborate with other research team members, internal product teams, external researchers and mentor interns.
• Make good use of top-of-the-line NVIDIA GPUs at scale for cutting edge research at the intersection of AI and climate science.
• Help lead technology transfer with engineers around NVIDIA as ideas graduate from research to product.

Benefits

• Equity and benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree