Research Engineer, Interactive World Models - New College Grad 2026

NVIDIA•Us, CA

About The Position

NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. It’s a unique legacy of innovation that’s fueled by great technology—and amazing people. Today, we’re tapping into the unlimited potential of AI to define the next era of computing. An era in which our GPU acts as the brains of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can understand the world. Doing what’s never been done before takes vision, innovation, and the world’s best talent. As an NVIDIAN, you’ll be immersed in a diverse, supportive environment where everyone is inspired to do their best work. Come join the team and see how you can make a lasting impact on the world. FlashDreams and FastGen are NVIDIA’s core technologies for turning video models into real-time world simulations. The stack spans model adaptation for faster generation and richer control, plus the execution layer that runs those models as responsive experiences. We develop and ship this technology in pursuit of generative worlds that people can explore and direct. The work can enable autonomous-driving simulation, robot policy development and testing, game worlds, medical simulation, and virtual training. As a Research Engineer, you will chip in across model development and runtime systems, building capabilities and helping turn research into systems that work in real applications. We work across the world-model ecosystem, from emerging startups to established model labs. If you want to collaborate with leading researchers, help shape a new computing platform, and ship AI capabilities with real-world impact, we would love to hear from you.

Requirements

Experience or coursework in one or more areas such as video or world models, diffusion and generative modeling, model distillation and adaptation, simulation, robotics, computer vision, or real-time, stateful ML systems.
Pursuing or recently completed a BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field or equivalent experience.
Hands-on experience building, evaluating, integrating, optimizing, or serving machine-learning systems through internships, academic research, open-source work, or substantial projects.
Strong Python and PyTorch skills, supported by software-engineering fundamentals in design, testing, debugging, version control, performance analysis, and Linux development.
Ability to turn an open-ended technical problem into a working implementation, measure its quality and performance, and communicate the results clearly.

Nice To Haves

Experience with post-training generative video models, including distillation, self-forcing, action conditioning, or long-horizon memory.
Experience profiling or optimizing ML workloads using CUDA, Triton, TensorRT, torch.compile, or similar tools, including work on latency, throughput, quantization, streaming, state or cache management, or multi-GPU execution.
Contributions to an open-source ML project or developer platform, such as implementing model support, improving performance, building tests and benchmarks, fixing difficult issues, writing documentation, or helping users adopt the technology.

Responsibilities

Contribute to building and optimizing the continuous autoregressive serving loop, including per-step control inputs, model and KV-cache state management, GPU inference, frame streaming, and model integrations to speed-of-light.
Help advance the production-ready world model frontier by working with researchers on few-step distillation, causal or autoregressive generation, reward fine-tuning, action conditioning, and long-horizon spatiotemporal memory and consistency.
Deliver capabilities such as multi-user experiences and simulation workflows from prototype through evaluation, integration, and release.
Strengthen the open-source platform through testing, CI/CD, observability, documentation, and developer workflows, and partner with researchers and users to improve reliability and adoption.