NVIDIA
Senior Applications Engineer, AI for Material Science and Chemistry
$168K–$322K
US, CA, Santa Clara +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 15, 2026
- Location
- US, CA, Santa Clara
US, NY, Remote
US, Remote - Experience
- 8+ years of experience or demonstrable expertise in developing high-performance numerical methods for scientific computing or materials science applications.
- Education
- PhD or equivalent experience in computational physics, computational chemistry, computer science, or related technical fields.
About the job
Develop and support NVIDIA ALCHEMI software and workflows that combine atomistic simulations with AI surrogates for materials discovery.
What you'll do
- Develop tools and features for performant atomistic simulation workflows.
- Help customers and developers integrate materials science applications with AI surrogates into their workflows.
- Profile applications, benchmark performance, and collaborate on research, whitepapers, and workshops.
What they ask for
- PhD or equivalent experience in computational physics, computational chemistry, computer science, or a related technical field.
- 8+ years of experience or demonstrable expertise developing high-performance numerical methods for scientific computing or materials science applications.
- Experience running materials science simulations on large-scale HPC systems.
- Proficiency in Fortran, C++, CUDA, Python, and common Material Science tools.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of high-performance plane waves primitives response properties and high-throughput screening.
- Experience with high-performance accelerator algorithm implementation, runtime performance optimization, floating point emulation, and mixed precision libraries.
Pay
168,000 USD - 270,250 USD base salary (Level 4); 200,000 USD - 322,000 USD base salary (Level 5)
Tools
NVIDIA ALCHEMI, Fortran, C++, CUDA, Python
AI focus
Develop software and workflows that integrate AI surrogates with atomistic simulations for materials discovery.
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