Research Scientist, AI for Clinical Translatability

About the role

Join NVIDIA in revolutionizing digital biology and accelerating drug discovery. This is a unique opportunity to apply your expertise in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where you'll develop tools to redefine possibilities in drug discovery, virtual cells, and beyond. Work alongside researchers, developers, and experts to tackle impactful challenges in healthcare.

Responsibilities

• Build models and datasets connecting early drug discovery to the clinic, spanning drug perturbation prediction, clinical translatability, patient stratification, and digital twins.
• Design benchmarks and evaluation methods for agentic systems in digital biology, and characterize where current LLMs underperform.
• Publish original research and release open-source software.
• Collaborate with external research leaders in digital biology.
• Partner with research and engineering teams across NVIDIA to transition research into products and services.

Requirements

• BS/MS or PhD in a quantitative field: computational biology, computer science, computational chemistry, physics, mathematics, or equivalent experience.
• Publication record in digital biology, ideally with clinical applications.
• 5+ years of experience building and training machine learning models at scale, including compute infrastructure.
• Proficiency with modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX.
• Fluency with statistical foundations like causal inference, experimental design, or clinical biostatistics.
• Ability to learn from and teach others to stay current with the latest developments in the field.
• Strong collaboration skills in a tight-knit team environment.

Skills

• Track record of state-of-the-art methods development in the clinical domain.
• Experience with clinical trial data, electronic health records, or regulatory science.
• Rigor in evaluation: temporal validation, benchmark design, assessing data leakage, and characterizing distribution shift.
• Background in open-source development.

Benefits

NVIDIA offers a generous benefits package and is widely considered one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. The role includes equity and comprehensive benefits.

Pay

Base salary range: $168,000 – $264,500 USD, determined by location, experience, and comparable roles.