Research Scientist, Ai-mediated Reality and Interaction Research - Phd New College Grad 2026

NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA +2

Research Scientist role focused on fundamental research in AI-Mediated Reality and Interaction, involving interactive physical AIs, 4D world modeling, and human-AI interaction. The role requires proposing, researching, and prototyping innovative ideas, publishing at top conferences, and collaborating with engineers for technology transfer. Requires a Ph.D. and a strong research track record in AI and computer vision.

What you'd actually do

  1. Propose, research, prototype and test innovative research ideas.
  2. Publish at top conferences and patent research ideas.
  3. Collaborate with other research team members, external researchers and mentor interns.
  4. Create working interactive demonstrations to showcase your research ideas.
  5. Participate in technology transfer with engineers around NVIDIA as ideas "graduate" from research to product.

Skills

Required

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering or equivalent research experience
  • Proficiency in theory and practice of AI and computer vision algorithms
  • Experience with 3D graphics development
  • Strong programming skills in Python, C++, CUDA
  • Proficiency with distributed deep learning training frameworks, e.g., PyTorch

Nice to have

  • Excellent communication skills

What the JD emphasized

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering or equivalent research experience.
  • Outstanding research track record in top-tier conferences (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, SIGGRAPH, NeurIPS, ICLR, etc.).

Other signals

  • fundamental research
  • algorithms
  • theory
  • application
  • artificial intelligence
  • generative modeling
  • large language models
  • human behavior understanding
  • digital human creation
  • interactive physical AIs
  • dynamic 4D worlds
  • human-AI interaction
  • 4D world modeling
  • neural rendering
  • graphics
  • computer vision
  • top venues