Senior Research Scientist, AI for Climate and Weather Simulation

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.

What you’ll be doing:

• 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.

What we need to see:

• 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. Bonus for CUDA.

• 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

• Preferred: 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.

NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most resourceful and dedicated people in the world working for us. Are you creative and autonomous? Do you love the challenge of exploring and creating the AI techniques that will define the future of weather and climate simulation? Are you a forward-thinker intrigued by a diverse set of AI algorithms and the opportunity to learn together with NVIDIA Research experts in generative AI for other domains? Ready to make a lasting impact in climate science and weather prediction? Apply now and be part of a team shaping the future.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 184,000 USD - 299,000 USD for Level 4, and 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5.Applications for this job will be accepted at least until September 2, 2025.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.