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Research Scientist, Autonomous Systems and Physical AI Research - PhD New College Grad 2026

NVIDIA· Research Staff Member
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Santa Clara, CA$168k - $264.5kfull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Research Scientist role in NVIDIA's Autonomous Systems and Physical AI Research (ASPIRE) group focused on foundational research in autonomous vehicles, robotics, and physical AI, with emphasis on publishing results and open-source code.

Responsibilities

  • Designing and implementing cutting-edge techniques for autonomous vehicles, robotics, and physical AI
  • Conducting original research and publishing your results
  • Collaborating with research colleagues, internal product teams, and external researchers
  • Transferring technology you’ve developed to relevant product groups

Qualifications

  • Completing or recently completed a PhD in 2026 in Robotics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field
  • Relevant research experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, embodied AI, or autonomous systems
  • Strong knowledge of the theory and practice of vehicle or robot autonomy—or expertise in a related area, with a strong interest in applying your work to autonomous systems
  • A track record of research excellence, demonstrated through publications at leading conferences and journals—such as RSS, ICRA, CoRL, IJRR, NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, TAC, etc.—and through other research artifacts such as open-source software
  • Exceptional Python programming skills; experience with C++ and parallel programming, such as CUDA, is a plus
  • Experience with machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills and ability to thrive in a dynamic, research-focused team

Skills

Required:PythonPyTorchCommunication
Nice to have:C++CUDA

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits (see NVIDIA benefits page)
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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