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PhD Research Intern, Autonomous Systems and Physical AI Research - 2027

NVIDIA· Intern
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Santa Clara, CA$38/hr - $94/hrinternPosted 1mo ago

About the role

PhD research internship focused on autonomous vehicles, robotics, and physical AI within NVIDIA's ASPIRE group. Conducts foundational research, publishes results, and collaborates with internal and external researchers to advance perception, decision-making under uncertainty, and safety in autonomous systems.

Responsibilities

  • Designing and implementing cutting-edge techniques for autonomous vehicles, robotics, and physical AI.
  • Conducting original research and publishing your results.
  • Collaborating with research colleagues, internal product teams, and external researchers.
  • Transferring technology you’ve developed to relevant product groups.

Qualifications

  • Currently pursuing a PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
  • Relevant research experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, embodied AI, or autonomous systems.
  • Strong knowledge of the theory and practice of vehicle or robot autonomy—or expertise in a related area, with a strong interest in applying your work to autonomous systems.
  • A track record of research excellence, demonstrated through publications at leading conferences and journals—such as RSS, ICRA, CoRL, IJRR, NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, TAC, etc.—and through other research artifacts such as open-source software.
  • Exceptional Python programming skills; experience with C++ and parallel programming, such as CUDA, is a plus.
  • Experience with machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to thrive in a dynamic, research-focused team.

Skills

Required:PythonPyTorch
Nice to have:C++CUDA

Benefits

  • Intern benefits (benefits link provided)
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