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PhD Research Intern, Networking - 2027

NVIDIA· Intern
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Santa Clara, CA$38/hr - $94/hrinternPosted 4w ago

About the role

Research internship focusing on future high-performance networking and computing systems, with emphasis on long-horizon research in computer architecture and communication systems for distributed computation.

Responsibilities

  • Develop algorithms and design hardware and software, extending the state of the art in computing, networking, and other technology areas surrounding NVIDIA's business.
  • Invent new techniques, technologies, methodologies, processes, and devices, to enable new products or types of products. Deliverable results include prototypes, patents, and publications.
  • Contribute to research that informs NVIDIA's technology direction 5-10 years out. Work focuses on long-horizon problems rather than products currently shipping or in development, except as to how they can be extended and improved.
  • Projects can include but are not limited to: optimizing communication stacks for AI training and inference, designing network protocols and congestion control, co-designing AI systems across software and hardware, developing circuits and microarchitecture for network controllers and switches, and architecting networks built on optical switching and silicon photonics.

Qualifications

  • Pursuing a PhD degree in CS, CE, EE, Physics, Math, or equivalent program.
  • Relevant industry or university research experience (hardware, software, networking).
  • Background in networking architectures, topologies, routing, and system design.
  • Publications at top-tier conferences (ISCA, HPCA, NSDI, SIGCOMM, etc.), or research clearly on track toward them.
  • Hands-on experience with simulation of networks and high-performance computing systems.
  • Familiarity with inference and training systems for AI models and associated communication patterns.
  • Excellent programming skills in a rapid prototyping environment such as Python; C++ and parallel programming.
  • Experience building or using AI agents to accelerate research — automating experiments, analyzing results, or generating and reviewing code.

Skills

Required:PythonC++Network simulationNetworking architectures, topologies, routing

Benefits

  • Intern benefits (link provided in job description)
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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