NVIDIA 2027 Summer Internships: Ph.D. Engineering
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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 Computer Architecture and Systems teams. We’re seeking strategic, ambitious, hard-working, collaborative, and creative individuals who are passionate about helping us tackle challenges no one else can solve.
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What you will be doing:
Design and implement novel ideas in GPU and CPU architectures, systems architectures, operating systems, AI systems, and distributed systems that advance computing, graphics, media processing, and related technologies central to NVIDIA's business.
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: C, C++, Python, CUDA
Strong background in research with publications at top conferences.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Potential internships require research experience in at least one of the following areas:
Chip-level and System-level Architecture
GPU and Multi-GPU Architecture Scalable memory systems and new memory technologies
Scalable on-chip and off-chip interconnects
Chip-level and system-level scheduling
Power, performance, and energy-efficiency in large-scale systems
Specialized accelerators for workloads like AI algorithms, crypto algorithms, databases, etc.
Hardware-software co-design
Systems for AI/ML
Systems Infrastructure for large LLM training and inference
Systems/AI algorithms codesign (e.g., for sparsity) \
AI/ML for systems (hardware design, code optimization, etc.)
ML for EDA
Programming Systems
GPU-accelerated algorithms
Languages and programming models for parallel computing
Optimizing compilers and AI-based performance assistants
Distributed runtime systems
Systems software and operating system interfaces
Optimizing GPU-accelerated workloads
Compilers and code verification
High-Performance Networking and Interconnects
Large-scale GPU networking
Topologies, routing, and congestion control
Networking techniques at the intersection of scale-out and scale-up
VLSI and Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
GPU Accelerated EDA
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Our internship hourly rates are a standard pay based on the position, your location, year in school, degree, and experience. The hourly rate for our interns is 38 USD - 94 USD.You will also be eligible for Intern benefits.
Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.This posting is for an existing vacancy.
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