Role at a glance
- Salary
- $38 – $94/hr
- Location
- Santa Clara, California, United States
- Work arrangement
- On-site
- Employment
- Internship
- Experience
- Strong background in research with publications at top conferences.
- Education
- Must be actively enrolled in a university pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, for...
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Role Summary
This Ph.D. research internship is part of NVIDIA’s Autonomous Vehicles teams and focuses on developing research techniques for vehicle autonomy. Interns collaborate with internal teams and external researchers and transfer research into products, prototypes, patents, or original publications.
What You'll Do
- Design and implement techniques for vehicle autonomy
- Collaborate with team members, other teams, and external researchers
- Transfer research to product groups to enable new products or product types
- Deliver prototypes, patents, products, and/or original research publications
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Python, C++, CUDA, and deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow; strong research background with publications at top conferences; excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Required
- Active enrollment in a Ph.D. program in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field for the full duration of the internship
- Python
- C++
- CUDA
- Deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow
- Strong background in research with publications at top conferences
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Preferred
- Experience with large-scale model training
- Research experience in vehicle autonomy, including autonomous vehicle architectures, reinforcement learning, multimodal models,...
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NVIDIA pioneered accelerated computing to tackle challenges no one else can solve. Our work in AI and digital twins is transforming the world's largest industries and profoundly impacting society — from gaming to robotics, self-driving cars to life-saving healthcare, climate change to virtual worlds where we can all connect and create.
Our internships offer an excellent opportunity to expand your career and get hands on experience with one of our industry leading Autonomous Vehicles teams. We’re seeking strategic, ambitious, hard-working, and creative individuals who are passionate about helping us tackle challenges no one else can solve.
Learn more about Research at NVIDIA.
What you will be doing:
Design and implement cutting-edge techniques in the field of vehicle autonomy.
Collaborate with other team members, teams, and/or external researchers.
Transfer your research to product groups to enable new products or types of products. Deliverable results include prototypes, patents, products, and/or publishing original research.
What we need to see:
Must be actively enrolled in a university pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, for the full duration of the internship; anticipated graduation date (month and year) must be clearly indicated on a resume or CV to be considered.
Depending on the internship, prior experience or knowledge requirements could include the following programming skills and technologies:
Python, C++, CUDA, Deep Learning Frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc.)
Strong background in research with publications at top conferences.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Experience with large-scale model training is a plus.
Potential internships require research experience in at least one of the following areas:
Next-Generation AV Architectures
Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
Mixture-of-Experts
Diffusion-LLMs
Diffusion-based Trajectory Decoding
Novel Policy Training Strategies
Closed-loop Training
Off-policy RL
Online RL
Enforcing Consistency
Foundation and Multimodal Models
Vision-language models
Multimodal reasoning
Spatial Multimodal Models
Modality Alignment
Model Scaling
Synthetic data
Inference Efficiency
Inference Optimizations (e.g., parallel decoding, speculative decoding)
Token Representations
Model Distillation
Simulation and Behavior Modeling
Digital Twins
Scenario Generation
World Models
Behavior/Traffic Modeling
End-to-End AV Systems
Mapless driving
World Representations
Beyond imitation learning
Safety-aware end-to-end models
Perception and Representation Learning
Multi-modal sensor fusion
2D/3D detection, segmentation, depth estimation, scene understanding, neural representations
Safe and Trustworthy Autonomous Systems
Principled robustness
Model explainability
Control Barrier Functions (CBFs)
Verification and Validation of Safety-Critical AI Systems
Trustworthy AI/ML for autonomy and robotics
Data-Strategies for AI
Benchmarking AV
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Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.This posting is for an existing vacancy.
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NVIDIA is a leading technology company renowned for its graphics processing units (GPUs) and innovative computing solutions that enhance visual experiences across multiple platforms, including gaming, scientific research, and artificial intelligence. Founded in 1993, the company has expanded its offerings to include powerful AI frameworks and deep learning platforms, making significant contributions to industries such as gaming, data centers, automotive, and healthcare. NVIDIA's commitment to pushing the boundaries of visual computing continues to drive advancements in both hardware and software, positioning the company at the forefront of emerging technologies and digital transformation.
NVIDIA is a leading technology company renowned for its graphics processing units (GPUs) and innovative computing solutions that enhance visual experiences across multiple platforms, including gaming, scientific research, and artificial intelligence. Founded in 1993, the company has expanded its offerings to include powerful AI frameworks and deep learning platforms, making significant contributions to industries such as gaming, data centers, automotive, and healthcare. NVIDIA's commitment to pushing the boundaries of visual computing continues to drive advancements in both hardware and software, positioning the company at the forefront of emerging technologies and digital transformation.