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

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 79,000 - 196,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Intern benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA offers a Ph.D. research internship focused on advancing large language and multimodal models at our Santa Clara campus. You will conduct novel research, collaborate across teams, and help translate findings into prototypes and potential products.

Ideal candidates are pursuing a Ph.D. in CS/EE, with strong publication records, Python/C++, CUDA experience, and deep learning framework familiarity. Intern benefits are available and applications are reviewed ongoing.

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with Python, C++, CUDA, and DL frameworks.
• Strong research background with publications.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with large-scale model training is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Research and develop novel methods for advancing LLMs and multimodal models.
• Collaborate with team members, teams, and external researchers.
• Transfer research to product groups with prototypes, patents, products, and/or publications.

Skills

Python

C++

CUDA

Deep learning frameworks

Education

PhD candidate in CS/EE (or related)

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

JAX

Job description

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Our internships offer an excellent opportunity to expand your career and get hands on experience with one of our industry leading LLM teams. We’re seeking strategic, ambitious, hard-working, collaborative, and creative individuals who are passionate about helping us tackle challenges no one else can solve.

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What You Will Be Doing

• Research and develop novel methods 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

• Must be 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 could include 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 Intern benefits.

Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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