Drimva

NVIDIA

Senior Developer Relations, Automated Synthetic Chemistry Science Lead

$224K–$431K

US, CA, Santa Clara · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026

Experience
10+ years of hands-on experience in the listed fields or equivalent experience.
Education
PhD (or equivalent experience).

About the job

Leads interdisciplinary science workstreams that integrate synthetic chemistry, automated experimentation, analytical data, and AI to plan and optimize research campaigns.

What you'll do

  • Coordinate research priorities, technical execution, campaign plans, and program achievements.
  • Lead science initiatives and integrate automated experimentation, analytical data, curation, model retraining, and campaign decisions into a closed-loop workflow.
  • Establish workstream governance and prepare leadership readouts on progress, decisions, dependencies, resources, and risks.

What they ask for

  • PhD or equivalent experience.
  • Deep expertise in experimental optimization and principle-based reasoning.
  • Understanding of automated experimental platforms, analytical readouts, metadata, quality control, and unsuccessful-data capture.
  • Experience leading large interdisciplinary teams across science, automation, machine learning, data platforms, analytics, software engineering, and partner execution.

Nice to have

  • Owned an experimental optimization platform, automated lab effort, AI-enabled science initiative, or high-impact applied research program.
  • Familiarity with GPU-accelerated scientific computing, simulation, AI agents, or large-scale data infrastructure.

Pay

224,000 USD - 356,500 USD (base salary, Level 5); 272,000 USD - 431,250 USD (base salary, Level 6)

Tools

machine learning, automated systems, AI modeling, data infrastructure, GPU-accelerated scientific computing, AI agents

AI focus

Guides AI for feasibility assessment, outcome prediction, optimization, scope exploration, and campaign orchestration; integrates model retraining into automated experimental workflows.

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