NVIDIA 2026 Internships: PhD Computer Vision and Deep Learning Research

Details

NVIDIA is accepting interest for 2026 Computer Vision and Deep Learning focused research internships. These internships provide hands-on experience working with industry-leading computer vision and deep learning teams. Candidates should be strategic, ambitious, creative, and passionate about solving hard problems across applications such as gaming, robotics, self-driving cars, healthcare, climate simulation, and virtual worlds.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement novel computer vision and deep learning methods.
• Collaborate with team members, other teams, and external researchers.
• Transfer research to product groups to enable new products or product types. Deliverables may include prototypes, patents, products, and/or publishing original research.

Requirements

• Must be actively enrolled in a university pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field for the entire duration of the internship.
• Strong background in research with publications at top conferences is expected.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Depending on the internship, prior experience or knowledge may include programming skills and technologies such as Python, C++, CUDA, and deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc.).
• Experience with large-scale model training is a plus.

Potential Research Areas (examples)

• 3D Vision and Scene Understanding: optical flow/scene flow, SLAM, depth estimation, digital twins.
• Human-Centric Vision: human motion modeling, human avatar creation (Gaussian Avatar, neural human avatars, text-to-avatar generation), physics-based clothing/hair/body simulation.
• Neural Rendering and Generative 3D: diffusion models, world models, neural radiance fields (NeRFs), novel view synthesis.
• Model Architectures and Efficiency: efficient deep learning, model pruning and compression, efficient vision transformers, neural architecture search (NAS).
• Multimodal and Vision-Language Models, synthetic data generation, weather and atmospheric simulation, 3D content creation.

Compensation & Benefits

• Intern hourly rate: 30 USD - 94 USD (standard pay based on position, location, year in school, degree, and experience).
• Interns are eligible for NVIDIA intern benefits (link provided in original posting).

Application & Other Details

• Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis; recruiters will review resumes and may reach out if experience fits available internships.
• NVIDIA is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to fostering a diverse work environment. The company does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.