PhD Research Intern: Embodied AI & Robotic Motion

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 108,886,000 - 269,348,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Intern benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara, CA, seeks a PhD candidate for an AI research internship focused on embodied AI, motion understanding, and robot control.

You'll develop scalable training/inference pipelines, publish findings at top conferences, and collaborate with product teams to transfer technology. Internship pay is hourly and ranges from 38 to 94 USD, with intern benefits and a structured mentoring program.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a PhD in CS/CE/EE/Robotics or related field.
• Creative use of coding agents to accelerate prototyping.
• Strong engineering skills in rapid prototyping and simulation frameworks (PyTorch, Isaac Lab, MuJoCo).
• Experience with large-scale ML systems and compute infrastructure.
• Promising research track record with publications at CVPR/ICCV/SIGGRAPH/CoRL.
• Experience in human motion modeling or related areas preferred.

Responsibilities

• Innovate and implement novel AI algorithms for motion and interaction skills.
• Develop robust training and inference pipelines for motion tasks.
• Build methods transferring human skills to humanoid robots.
• Publish research findings at leading conferences.
• Partner with product teams for technology transfer.

Skills

Coding agents

Prototyping

Model training

PyTorch

MuJoCo

Large-scale ML systems

Publications

Education

PhD student in CS/CE/EE/Robotics

Tools

PyTorch

Isaac Lab

MuJoCo

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara, CA, seeks a PhD candidate for an AI research internship focused on embodied AI, motion understanding, and robot control.

You'll develop scalable training/inference pipelines, publish findings at top conferences, and collaborate with product teams to transfer technology. Internship pay is hourly and ranges from 38 to 94 USD, with intern benefits and a structured mentoring program.