NVIDIA is hiring a Research Scientist - Trustworthy AI to lead initiatives for low-resource language AI projects, aligning them with the company's ambitious goals. You'll join a diverse, supportive environment where teams are inspired to do their best work.
What You'll Do
- Lead and coordinate initiatives that support low-resource language AI projects, aligning them with organizational goals.
- Engage with linguists, language communities, NGOs, researchers, and policymakers to inform and implement program priorities.
- Maintain AI model behavioral policies to ensure alignment with ethical standards, legal requirements, and user impacts across diverse contexts.
- Promote NVIDIA’s AI behavior guidelines and provide feedback to support responsible AI development.
- Identify linguistic tactics used to bypass guardrails and develop adversarial test sets or fine-tuned models to strengthen AI defenses.
- Identify and mitigate potential ethical, sociocultural, and governance risks in collaboration with responsible AI and legal teams.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of experience in program or product management, preferably in AI/ML, NLP, or social impact technology.
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, Computational Linguistics, or a closely related field. A Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) with substantial industry experience in NLP, adversarial ML, and dataset creation may also be acceptable.
- Proven track record of managing interdisciplinary and multicultural projects.
- Strong organizational and communication skills, with an emphasis on documentation, prioritization, and reporting.
- Familiarity with LLMs, language data lifecycles, or multilingual NLP.
- Passion for linguistic diversity, digital equity, and inclusive AI.
Nice to Have
- Background in computational linguistics, sociolinguistics, or data governance.
- Experience with international or community-centered technology projects.
- Fluency or proficiency in a non-English language, especially a low-resource language.
- Experience in open-source, humanitarian tech, or nonprofit environments.
Benefits & Compensation
- Salary range: $160,000 - $258,750 USD
- Eligible for equity.
- Highly competitive salaries.
- Comprehensive benefits package.
Work Mode
This position is based in New York, NY, USA.
NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.
