[Remote] Senior Research Scientist, Digital Biology

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NVIDIA is a leading technology company focused on transforming the life sciences through innovative research. They are seeking a Senior Research Scientist to develop datasets and evaluation frameworks for foundation models while collaborating with various teams to enhance drug discovery processes.

Responsibilities
• Serving as a technical lead for the development of datasets, tasks, and evaluation frameworks for foundation models
• Building external collaborations and community efforts to build high-quality datasets and biologically meaningful tasks for complex problems in digital biology
• Establishing benchmarks and evaluation criteria, and demonstrating the strengths of our research output to promote tangible progress in the field
• Inventing novel training and inference techniques, harnessing the power of NVIDIA accelerated computing platforms
• Publishing original research and releasing open-source software
• Collaborating with research and engineering teams across NVIDIA to translate research into products and services
• Mentoring emerging researchers and helping set the technical direction of the project

Skills
• Advanced degree in a quantitative field such as Computational Chemistry, Computational Biology, Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, or equivalent experience
• More than 5 years of pertinent experience involving direct assessment of models in the digital biology and drug discovery field
• Proven track record of publishing work in machine learning, data science, and/or digital biology
• Proficient in modern machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX
• Experience in one or more of the following: cheminformatics, computational biology, proteomics, structural biology, or another relevant field of biology or chemistry
• Ability to absorb new information and keep others informed about the most recent advancements and tools in the field
• Ability to work together in a tight-knit team environment
• Comprehensive understanding of the drug discovery field
• Experience formulating original strategies in machine learning
• Experience with multimodal biological or chemical foundation models
• Experience defining benchmarks, evaluation frameworks, or shared standards for scientific ML
• Track record of research impact through publications, open-source software, patents, or transferred technology

Benefits
• Equity
• Benefits

Company Overview
• NVIDIA is a computing platform company operating at the intersection of graphics, HPC, and AI. It was founded in 1993, and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.nvidia.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship
• NVIDIA has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 448 in 2026, 1872 in 2025, 1354 in 2024, 976 in 2023, 835 in 2022, 601 in 2021, 529 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.