NVIDIA 2026 Internships: PhD Generative AI Research - US

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.

What you will be doing:

• 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.

What we need to see:

• 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.
• Depending on the internship, prior experience or knowledge requirements could include the following programming skills and technologies: Python, C++, CUDA, Deep Learning Frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, Tensorflow, etc.)
• Strong background in research with publications at top conferences.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with large-scale model training is a plus.

Potential internships require 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)