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PhD Research Intern, Programming Systems - 2027

NVIDIA· Intern
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Santa Clara, CA$38/hr - $94/hrinternshipPosted 3w ago

About the role

Research internship focused on programming systems, parallel computing, and related technologies. Develop algorithms, prototypes, and innovative techniques to advance NVIDIA's parallel programming models, runtimes, and tooling, with potential for patents and publications.

Responsibilities

  • Develop algorithms and design software extending the state of the art in parallel computing, machine learning, data analytics, and related areas surrounding NVIDIA's business.
  • Invent new techniques, technologies, methodologies, and processes to enable new products or types of products. Deliverable results include prototypes, patents, leading to products and publications.
  • Produce technology vision and the basis for products 5-10 years out, focusing on potential extensions and improvements to existing/ future NVIDIA platforms.

Qualifications

  • Pursuing a PhD Degree in relevant discipline(s) (CS, CE, EE, Physics, Math).
  • 2+ years of relevant industrial and University experience preferred (hardware, software, and algorithm development on desktop, mobile, embedded, and datacenter systems).
  • Strong programming ability in at least one of: C, C++, Python, and/or Rust.
  • Track record of research contributions in programming languages, compilers, runtime systems, parallel algorithms, formal verification, agentic software authoring/optimization, or related fields.
  • Published academic papers in your field of research.

Skills

Required:Programming in CProgramming in C++
Nice to have:Programming in PythonProgramming in Rust

Benefits

  • Intern benefits (information available via NVIDIA Intern benefits page)
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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