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10 NVIDIA research engineers
These ten people are current NVIDIA research engineers who hold research engineer titles at the company today. A reader can learn what research engineer work at NVIDIA involves from people who have done it.
Professionals to explore
01—10Alperen Değirmenci
LinkedInExperience: Senior Robotics Research Engineer · NVIDIA
Senior Robotics Research Engineer at NVIDIA since 2026, with a headline naming the NVIDIA Seattle Robotics Lab. Alperen Değirmenci was Senior Applied Research Scientist at NVIDIA (2024–2026) and Senior Deep Learning Research & Development Engineer (Staff) there (2019–2023).
Ayush Agarwal
LinkedInExperience: Former Research Engineer · NVIDIA
Research Engineer at NVIDIA (2025–2026) and Senior Research Engineer there since 2026; a highlight says they contribute to NVIDIA's optimized disaggregated serving framework. Ayush Agarwal was a graduate research assistant at Northwestern University in 2024, according to their profile.
Harshil Kotamreddy
LinkedInExperience: Research Engineer · NVIDIA
Research Engineer at NVIDIA since 2026; their summary says they work on data generation and curation for Nemotron Omni. Harshil Kotamreddy was Generative AI Engineer at NVIDIA (2025–2026) and completed reinforcement learning research for an M.Sc. at the University of Alberta.
Jaewoo Seo
LinkedInExperience: Principal Research Engineer · NVIDIA
Principal Research Engineer at NVIDIA since 2020, a role a highlight ties to Omniverse Avatar applied research for digital humans. Jaewoo Seo was Director of R&D at Pinscreen (2016–2020) and Research Engineer (Computer Vision) at Industrial Light & Magic (2015–2016).
Kaushil Kundalia
LinkedInExperience: Research Engineer · NVIDIA
Research Engineer at NVIDIA since 2025, a role a highlight describes as getting robots to work autonomously at the GEAR Lab. Kaushil Kundalia was Generative AI Analyst at NVIDIA (2024–2025) and Software Engineer ML at Fiddler AI (2021–2022), according to their profile.
Loïc Magne
LinkedInExperience: Research Engineer · NVIDIA
Research Engineer at NVIDIA since 2024, a role a highlight ties to embodied AI and robotics in the GEAR lab. Loïc Magne was Research Assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (2023–2024), according to their profile, and is based in Occitanie, France.
Nachiket Bhatt
LinkedInExperience: Research Engineer · NVIDIA
Research Engineer at NVIDIA since 2023 and Senior Research Engineer there since 2026, according to their profile, both listed in the research department. Nachiket Bhatt held a conversational AI software engineering intern role at NVIDIA (2021–2022) and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Natan Bagrov
LinkedInExperience: Senior AI Research Engineer · NVIDIA
Senior AI Research Engineer at NVIDIA in Tel Aviv since 2024, with a headline naming generative AI at NVIDIA. Natan Bagrov was Computer Vision Team Lead at Deci AI (2022–2024), which their profile notes was acquired by NVIDIA, and Deep Learning Research Engineer at Deci AI (2021–2022).
Rishabh Mehta
LinkedInExperience: Senior Research Engineer · NVIDIA
Senior Research Engineer at NVIDIA since 2024, on a team a highlight names as exploratory research and codesign, with a current focus on continual learning, RL infrastructure and world models. Rishabh Mehta was Senior ML Engineer at Samsung Semiconductor (2023–2024).
Yu Wang
LinkedInExperience: Research Engineer · NVIDIA
Research Engineer at NVIDIA since 2025, a role a highlight describes as researching VLA-reasoning models for autonomy at NVIDIA Research. Yu Wang was Senior Machine Learning Engineer at NVIDIA (2021–2025) and holds a PhD in mechanical engineering, according to their headline.
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- 01What does a typical research engineering project look like from first prototype to finished result?
- 02How do research engineers split their time between building systems and running experiments?
- 03What separates research engineering from product software engineering in day-to-day work?
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