Senior Research Scientist, AI For Climate And Weather Simulation

Details

NVIDIA Research’s AI Climate and Weather Simulation Team is seeking a Senior Research Scientist to re-imagine technology across the Earth System Modeling stack using new ideas in AI. Work includes 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, and reasoning over multi-modal climate data. The group publishes at top venues in climate science and AI and values technology transfer to NVIDIA products and real-world impact on academic and government climate prediction.

Responsibilities

• Propose, research, prototype, and test innovative research ideas.
• Publish groundbreaking work at top conferences and journals.
• Collaborate with research team members, internal product teams, and external researchers; mentor interns.
• Make 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 across NVIDIA as ideas graduate from research to product.

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 and ability to drive research projects end-to-end (including messy parts).
• Proficiency with distributed deep learning training frameworks (e.g., PyTorch). Bonus for CUDA experience.
• Excellent software engineering skills and experience scaling algorithms for high computational loads.
• Preferred: synergistic expertise in climate domain science, nonlinear physics, and familiarity with associated synthetic and observational datasets and physical simulation systems.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; ability to variably lead or contribute as needed.
• Drive to transfer technology to products.

Compensation and Benefits

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. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Additional Information

• Applications for this job will be accepted at least until September 2, 2025.
• NVIDIA is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to fostering a diverse work environment.