NVIDIA
PhD Research Intern, Cross-Disciplinary Vision Science - Summer 2027
US, CA, Santa Clara +2 · Internship · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Location
- US, CA, Santa Clara
US, MA, Westford
US, NC, Durham - Education
- Currently pursuing a Ph.D. or equivalent academic program.
About the job
Conduct cross-disciplinary research on human and machine vision with NVIDIA Research, connecting research findings to real-world problems and sharing results through publications.
What you'll do
- Break research questions into manageable parts and pursue iterative solutions.
- Identify research gaps and develop creative, high-impact approaches.
- Collaborate with researchers and product engineers and disseminate findings through conference, journal, or in-house publications.
What they ask for
- Currently pursuing a Ph.D. or equivalent academic program, demonstrated by research and publications.
- Deep interest in gaming and/or human behavior in related application domains.
- Training or systematic knowledge and skill in Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Computer Science/Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Proficiency with Python, Rust, and/or C++; experience with AI model training and evaluation frameworks such as PyTorch.
Nice to have
- Experience quantitatively modeling human perception, cognition, movement, and/or decision-making; familiarity with multi-node, multi-GPU workflows.
- Comfort with modern software development and version control; interest in deep learning and large-scale multimodal foundation models; public technical portfolio.
Pay
38 USD - 94 USD hourly rate
Tools
Python, Rust, C++, PyTorch, git(hub/lab), LLMs, VLMs
AI focus
Research on vision between humans and machines, including AI model training and evaluation; familiarity with large-scale multimodal foundation models is a plus.
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