NVIDIA 2027 Internships: Ph.D. Research Large Language Models

Socket.dev; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 52,000 - 129,000; Full time

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Intern benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA is offering an internship in Research for Ph.D. students in Computer Science or related fields. You will work on advancing large language and multimodal models, collaborating with internal teams and external researchers, and transferring findings to product groups for prototypes, patents, or publications.

The role requires active Ph.D. enrollment for the full duration of the internship, with an anticipated graduation date specified on the resume.

Qualifications

• Must be actively enrolled in a university pursuing a Ph.D. degree for the full duration of the internship; anticipated graduation date must be indicated on resume.
• Programming skills may include Python, C++, CUDA, and DL frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, etc.).
• Strong research background with publications at top conferences.

Responsibilities

• Research and develop novel methods for advancing large language and multimodal models.
• Collaborate with team members and external researchers.
• Transfer research to product groups to enable new products and publish results.

Skills

Python

C++

CUDA

Deep Learning Frameworks

Education

Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science or related field

Job description

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What you will be doing:

• Research and develop novelmethods for advancing the capabilities of large language and multimodal models.
• Collaborate with other team members, teams, and/or external researchers.
• Transfer your research to product groups to enable new products or types of products. Deliverable results include prototypes, patents, products,and/or publishing original research.

What we need to see:

• Mustbe actively enrolled in a university pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, for the full duration of the internship;anticipated graduation date (month and year)must be clearly indicated on a resume or CV to be considered.
• Depending on the internship, prior experience or knowledge requirements couldinclude the following programming skills and technologies:

Python, C++, CUDA, Deep Learning Framworks (PyTorch, Tensorflow, JAX, etc.)

• Strong background in research with publications at top conferences.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with large-scale model training is a plus.

Potential internships require research experience in at least one of the following areas:

• Large Language Models and Foundation Models
• Transformer architectures
• Knowledge distillation and data synthesis
• Long-context methods
• Model Efficiency and Optimization
• Model compression and pruning
• Quantization
• Inference optimization and acceleration
• Parameter-efficient fine-tuning
• Neural Architecture Search (NAS)
• Training and Alignment
• Large-scale model training
• Instruction tuning
• Reinforcement Learning
• Advanced reasoning and test-time inference
• Few-shot and zero-shot learning
• Synthetic data generation
• Multimodal and Vision Language Models
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Our internship hourly rates are a standard pay based on the position, your location, year in school, degree, and experience. The hourly rate for our interns is 38 USD - 94 USD.

You will also be eligible for Internbenefits.

Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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