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 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.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of research experience in deep learning, computer science, applied math/statistics, or related fields.
- Outstanding research portfolio including multiple first-author publications in reputable conferences or journals that make good use of AI.
- 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.
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.
Other
- Ph.D. in the geophysical sciences, computer science, applied math/statistics, or related fields.
- Excellent taste in problem selection.
- Excellent communication & collaboration skills; ability to variably lead or contribute as needed.
- Drive to transfer technology to products.
- 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?
