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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