# Senior Research Scientist, Human-AI Perception and Interaction

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Research Scientist for Human-AI Perception & Interaction at NVIDIA Research. The successful candidate will work on advancing AI in gaming, robotics, and other areas by combining human intelligence and interaction to shape perception, learning, and behavior.

The Human Performance and Experience (HPX) team at NVIDIA Research aims to lead AI innovation by deeply understanding humans. You will collaborate with research scientists and engineers from various backgrounds and product engineers to redefine the future of AI and human interaction.

**Responsibilities:**

- Propose, research, prototype, and test innovative research ideas.

- Publish research findings at top conferences and patent novel inventions.

- Collaborate with team members, external researchers, and mentor interns.

- Create interactive demonstrations to showcase research ideas.

- Participate in technology transfer with engineers as ideas transition from research to product.

**Requirements:**

- Ph.D. or equivalent research experience in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Cognitive Science, or a related field.

- At least 3 years of relevant work experience.

- Strong track record of publications in top-tier conferences (e.g., SIGGRAPH, CHI, HRI, ICRA, NeurIPS).

- Experience studying human behaviors in gaming, driving, interacting with robots, etc.

- Proficiency in Python, Rust, and/or C++.

- Experience with AI model training and evaluation frameworks, such as PyTorch.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Demonstrated public portfolio (e.g., repositories, OSS contributions, notebooks, packages, technical blog posts with code).

- Experience with multi-node, multi-GPU training and inference workflows.

- Familiarity with modern deep learning models, including large-scale, multi-modal foundation models.

- Track record of applying human behavior models to machine learning applications or vice versa.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Rust
- C++
- PyTorch
- Computer Science
- Electrical Engineering
- Cognitive Science

### Nice to have
- multi-node, multi-GPU training
- modern deep learning models
- human behavior models
- machine learning applications

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