NVIDIA 2026 Internships: PhD Generative AI Research

NVIDIA • Santa Clara, CA

128d • $30 - $94

About The Position

By submitting your resume, you’re expressing interest in one of our 2026 Generative AI 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 Generative AI 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, JAX, 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 at least one of the following areas: Multimodal Foundation Models, Diffusion Models, World Models, Image, Video, or Audio Generation, Large Language Models, Vision-Language Models, Action-Based Transformers, Long Context Methods, Physics-Based Simulation, Flow Based Generative Models, Synthetic Data Generation, AI for Science, Protein/Molecule Generation, Climate Modeling and Weather Forecasting, Partial Differential Equations (PDEs).

Responsibilities

• Design and implement algorithms that push the boundaries of generative AI, computer vision, robotics, and other technology domains relevant 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.

Benefits

• Intern hourly rates are a standard pay based on the position, your location, year in school, degree, and experience, ranging from 30 USD to 94 USD.
• Eligible for Intern benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees