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Research Scientist, Autonomous Systems and Physical AI Research - PhD New College Grad 2026
NVIDIA · Santa Clara, CA · Posted 30 days ago
Conduct foundational research on autonomous vehicles and robotics at NVIDIA while maintaining the freedom to publish and open-source your breakthrough work.
We are now recruiting top Research Scientists to work on autonomous vehicles, robotics, and physical AI! Intelligent machines that can perceive, reason, and safely interact with people and the physical world are rapidly becoming a reality. Self-driving cars, autonomous delivery and construction vehicles, mobile manipulators, and other robotic systems are moving closer to widespread deployment. However, fundamental research challenges remain before these systems can operate safely, reliably, and autonomously in complex, unfamiliar environments.
For example, how can we:
- Develop new training paradigms that use perception and interaction to train autonomous vehicle and robot policies in closed loop?
- Equip autonomous systems with online and offline assurances that meet the requirements of safety-critical applications?
- Enable vehicles and robots to navigate across new environments, tasks, and embodiments?
- Build systems that reason under uncertainty and interact safely and naturally with people and other agents?
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