Senior Machine Learning Performance Engineer - Physics

NVIDIA’s deep learning and HPC platforms have made a huge impact in various fields and are broadly used across leading academic institutions, start-ups, and industry, including the world’s largest Internet companies. We need passionate and creative people to help us building and optimizing an AI framework that will solve the toughest and most relevant problems of humanity and problems that are at the cutting edge of science & engineering: weather/climate challenges, product design, digital twins, molecular dynamics, novel materials, accelerated drug development, etc.

What you'll be doing:

• Work with some of the brightest minds in a leading AI company to develop a leading machine learning framework, NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo, for our academic and industrial partners to construct digital twins and machine learning simulation surrogates for real world science and engineering problems

• Work with internal project teams to validate applications built using the framework on Nvidia’s products

• Characterize and optimize scientific AI workloads on the latest NVIDIA platforms.

• Stay up to date with the latest research and innovations in deep learning techniques, implement and experiment with new ideas to develop and enhance NVIDIA's deep learning technologies with focus on simulations

What we need to see:

• BS or MS degree (PhD preferred) in computer science, mathematics, computational science/engineering, or related technical field or equivalent experience

• 5+ yrs of relevant experience. Strong Python programming skills

• Familiarity with containers, numeric libraries, modular software design, distributed computing, and/or high-performance storage systems.

• Good knowledge of state-of-the-art DNN architectures and machine learning techniques and algorithms (graph networks, diffusion models, reinforcement learning etc.) with experience in developing or using major deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, Tensorflow, JAX etc.)

• Experience with solving and using machine learning for real world problems involving scientific/engineering simulations (domains/applications - industrial, life sciences, high energy physics, earth sciences – seismic, weather & climate modeling; physics types - CFD, structural, electromagnetics, optics, acoustics etc.)

• Experience with scientific visualization is a big plus. Experience with performance measurement tools, such as NVIDIA Nsight Systems

• Strong analytical skills with bias for action. Good time-management and organization skills to thrive in a fast paced, dynamic environment

• Solid written and oral communications skills

• Good teamwork and interpersonal skills

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Work with multi-node systems with data-parallel and model parallel programming experience. Experience with CUDA, or python kernel languages such as Triton or NVIDIA Warp

• Usage of nonlinear simulation tools and techniques, usage of major simulation codes (opensource and/or commercial). Experience with High Performance Computing for Scientific AI, or end-to-end training and inference optimization.

• Published papers in the field of AI in scientific computing

NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people on the planet working for us. If you're creative and autonomous, we want to hear from you! NVIDIA’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern deep learning — the next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world. Today, we are increasingly known as “the AI computing company.” We're looking to grow our company and establish teams with the most thoughtful people in the world.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 152,000 USD - 241,500 USD for Level 3, and 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4.Applications for this job will be accepted at least until February 9, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy. 

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