Senior Research Scientist, Digital Biology

NVIDIA

Senior Research Scientist guiding research in digital biology for drug discovery at NVIDIA. Leading development of frameworks while collaborating with diverse teams on innovative solutions.

Posted 4/21/2026full-timeNew York City • California, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $192,000 - $304,750 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PyTorchTensorflow

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

machine learningdata scienceNVIDIA accelerated computingPyTorchTensorFlowJAXcheminformaticscomputational biologyproteomicsstructural biology

Soft Skills

mentoringcollaborationcommunicationteamworkinformation absorption

Certifications

advanced degree in quantitative field