NVIDIA 2026 Internships: PhD Computer Vision and Deep Learning Research

Nvidia • Santa Clara, CA

112d • $30 - $94

About The Position

By submitting your resume, you're expressing interest in one of our 2026 Computer Vision and Deep Learning focused Research Internships. We'll review resumes on an ongoing basis, and a recruiter may reach out if your experience fits one of our many internship opportunities. 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 Vision and Deep Learning teams. We're seeking strategic, ambitious, hard-working, and creative individuals who are passionate about helping us tackle challenges no one else can solve.

Requirements

• Must be actively enrolled in a university pursuing a PhD degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, for the entire duration of the internship.
• Prior experience or knowledge in programming skills and technologies such as Python, C++, CUDA, and Deep Learning Frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc.).
• Strong background in research with publications at top conferences.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with large-scale model training.
• Research experience in areas such as 3D Vision and Scene Understanding, Optical Flow/Scene Flow, SLAM, Depth Estimation, Digital Twins, Human-Centric Vision, Human Motion Modeling, Human avatar creation, Physics-Based Clothing/Hair/Body Simulation, Neural Rendering and Generative 3D Diffusion Models, World Models, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs), Novel View Synthesis, 3D Content Creation, Model Architectures and Efficiency, Efficient Deep Learning Model pruning and compression, Efficient vision transformers, Neural Architecture Search (NAS), Multimodal and Vision-Language Models, Synthetic data generation, Weather and Atmospheric Simulation.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement novel computer vision and deep learning methods.
• 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.

Benefits

• Intern hourly rates range from 30 USD to 94 USD based on position, location, year in school, degree, and experience.
• Eligible for Intern benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree