Research Scientist, AI for Graphics and Gaming - New College Grad 2026

Benefits

• Stay current on AI and graphics research and work with product, driver, hardware, engine, and platform teams to turn promising ideas into shipping, user-visible features.
• What we need to see: Pursuing PhD in Computer Science/Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Deep learning experience in image/video generation, graphics, computer vision, or related fields, with a solid understanding of core DL fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience training large models on multi-GPU clusters (hundreds to thousands of GPUs), building robust distributed training pipelines and debugging at scale, with strong proficiency in PyTorch required; familiarity with GPU architecture, CUDA abstractions, and efficiency techniques (e.g., distillation, pruning, low-precision training/inference) is a plus.
• Background in graphics—such as rendering pipelines or game engines—and experience with generative models, neural rendering, or reconstruction is a plus.
• Proven track record of impactful research and shipped ideas (e.g., leading publications, production features, or widely used tools), and strong communication and collaboration skills in cross-functional teams.
• NVIDIA’s invention of the GPU 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing.
• More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world.
• Today, we are increasingly known as “the AI computing company”.
• Do you love the challenge of pushing what's possible in realtime interactive graphics and Generative AI? If so, we want to hear from you! Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.
• The base salary range is 168,000 USD - 264,500 USD.
• You will also be eligible for equity and benefits .
• Applications for this job will be accepted at least until January 31, 2026.
• This posting is for an existing vacancy.
• NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.
• As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.