Principal Data Scientist - Cloud Gaming and AI

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA +1 · Remote

NVIDIA is seeking a Principal Data Scientist to lead the development and deployment of AI/ML-based solutions for their GeForce NOW cloud gaming service. The role involves providing technical leadership, designing and implementing AI/ML solutions for analytics, forecasting, optimization, and customer retention, with a focus on real-time prescriptive pipelines and multi-agent systems. The position requires extensive experience in data science, ML, and large-scale production deployments.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide Technical Leadership to the team of Data Scientists and Engineers working on global deployment at scale of GPU Compute services.
  2. Work with Leadership and Stakeholders to understand top level requirements, build a tech roadmap, design solutions and guide the team to deliver results.
  3. Acquire and apply domain knowledge of the product and platform to lead the design, implementation, and deployment of AI/ML based solutions for generating actionable insights and real-time prescriptive analytic pipelines to drive optimal outcomes for production services.
  4. Build and Deploy real time and scalable solutions for real time User Diagnostics, LLM Chatbot, dynamic Suspicious Activity Detection, User feedback based clustering and alerting and LLM based Actionable Insight Generation solutions for Engineering And Management.
  5. Improve productivity of the org by wrangling petabytes of data using statistical/AI/ML/LLM models to provide actionable and real time insights.

Skills

Required

  • Master’s/PhD or equivalent experience in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Operations Research or related quantitative field
  • Hands-on expertise in programming languages like Python, SQL, Java
  • modeling frameworks like Scikit-learn, Pytorch, TensorFlow
  • Experience with common tools for data storage and processing (e.g. Spark, Pandas, Delta Lake)
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Nice to have

  • Experience of User Retention Modeling, LLMs, Time Series Forecasting or Operations Research is a plus.

What the JD emphasized

  • 15+ years of software experience for large-scale and reliable production deployments
  • 8+ years of proven experience in Statistics/AI/ML
  • An outstanding track record of successful past projects, as a lead, related to the research and application of data science at scale.

Other signals

  • LLM Chatbot
  • AI-augmented Analytics
  • predictive modeling
  • real-time forecasting
  • capacity allocation
  • dynamic prescriptions
  • Customer Retention modeling
  • personalized diagnostic recommendations
  • multi-agent self-learning Harnesses