Robotics Simulation Software Intern (Zurich)

NVIDIA Corporation; Zürich; On-site; CHF 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation in Zurich, Switzerland is offering an internship in its Physics Simulation Team to work on a Newton feature or reusable workflow to accelerate robot learning. Start: 2027, duration 6 months.

You will collaborate with senior engineers and contribute to testing, documentation, and reliable simulation results. The candidate should be pursuing an MS or PhD in CS/Robotics/Physics, possess strong analytical and coding skills, and be adept at using AI-assisted development tools.

Qualifications

• Pursuing an MS or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Physics, or a related field.
• Strong analytical abilities with foundations in mathematics, linear algebra, numerical algorithms, and physics.
• Strong programming skills and ability to understand, modify, and debug an existing codebase.
• Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools and coding agents, including evaluating generated work.
• Good judgment in selecting meaningful problems and designing manageable experiments.
• Solid software engineering foundations and clear technical communication.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with senior robotics and simulation engineers to understand a customer need and develop a Newton core feature or reusable workflow using Newton.
• Take ownership of a scoped contribution from investigation through implementation and evaluation, with guidance, mentoring, and code review from experienced engineers.
• Design experiments to demonstrate measurable improvements in correctness, physical fidelity, reliability, performance, or usability using our robotics software stacks and, where appropriate, robotic hardware.
• Use AI-assisted development tools to explore approaches, implement and debug code, and validate results.
• Contribute tests, documentation, and maintainable software that help users get reliable simulation results and accelerate robot learning.

Skills

Strong analytical abilities

Programming skills (Python/C/C++)

AI-assisted development tools

Experiment design

Technical communication

Education

MS/PhD in CS/Robotics/Physics or related

Tools

CUDA

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Isaac Lab

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Job description

NVIDIA Corporation in Zurich, Switzerland is offering an internship in its Physics Simulation Team to work on a Newton feature or reusable workflow to accelerate robot learning. Start: 2027, duration 6 months.

You will collaborate with senior engineers and contribute to testing, documentation, and reliable simulation results. The candidate should be pursuing an MS or PhD in CS/Robotics/Physics, possess strong analytical and coding skills, and be adept at using AI-assisted development tools.