PhD Research Intern, Generative AI - 2026
NVIDIA•Santa Clara, CA
•$30 - $94
About The Position
At NVIDIA, we are building Cosmos world foundation models and generative AI systems for Physical AI across robotics, autonomous driving, smart spaces, and embodied agents. The NVIDIA Cosmos Platform enables multimodal world understanding, simulation, synthetic data generation, and embodied reasoning. We are looking for outstanding PhD interns to help advance the frontier of Physical AI and world models.
Requirements
- Currently pursuing a PhD in CS, EE, Robotics, or related fields.
- Strong background in generative AI, computer vision, multimodal learning, robotics, or reinforcement learning.
- Prior publication record and research experience.
- Strong Python and PyTorch skills.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with large-scale foundation model training.
- Research in video models, VLMs, world models, robotics, or autonomous driving.
- Experience with distributed training, simulation, or embodied AI.
Responsibilities
- Conduct research in generative AI, multimodal foundation models, world models, and embodied AI.
- Develop algorithms for video understanding/generation, action-conditioned simulation, multimodal reasoning, and policy learning.
- Train and evaluate large-scale models using video, image, language, and robotics or autonomous driving data.
- Collaborate with researchers and engineers across AI, robotics, simulation, and graphics teams.
- Publish research at top conferences and transfer innovations into NVIDIA products.
Benefits
- Intern benefits
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Intern
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
