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PhD Research Intern, Learning Embodied Skills from Human Data - 2027

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

About the role

Research internship in NVIDIA's DAIR group focusing on learning embodied skills from large-scale human data to enable motion and interaction skills across physical and digital embodiments, including humanoid robots and animated characters.

Responsibilities

  • Innovate and implement novel AI algorithms that transform large-scale human data into controllable motion and interaction skills across physical and digital embodiments.
  • Develop robust, scalable training and inference pipelines for motion reconstruction, generation, retargeting, and character and robot control.
  • Build methods that transfer human skills to humanoid robots, including whole-body loco-manipulation and dexterous manipulation.
  • Maintain a close, collaborative relationship with your mentor(s).
  • Publish your research findings at leading computer vision, machine learning, graphics, and robotics conferences.
  • Partner with product teams to enable effective technology transfer of your work.

Qualifications

  • Pursuing a PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related field.
  • Highly efficient and creative use of coding agents to accelerate research prototyping, experimentation, and development.
  • Outstanding engineering skills in rapid prototyping and developing model-training and simulation frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, Isaac Lab, MuJoCo).
  • Excellent skills in working with large-scale machine learning/AI systems and compute infrastructure.
  • A promising research track record with at least one publication at leading computer vision, computer graphics or robotics conference (e.g. CVPR, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, CoRL, etc.).
  • Experience in human motion modeling, human-object interaction, character animation, robot learning, reinforcement or imitation learning, cross-embodiment motion tracking, generative modeling, video understanding, or differentiable physics simulation is preferred.

Skills

Required:PhD-level research in relevant fieldPrototyping and research software developmentLarge-scale ML/AI systems

Benefits

  • Intern benefits (see benefit link)
  • Hourly pay between 38 USD and 94 USD depending on location, year in school, degree, and experience.
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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