Performance Engineer Intern, Systems Software - Fall 2026

at Nvidia
USD 20-71 per hour
INTERN
✅ On-site

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences

Kubernetes @ 3 Linux @ 3 Python @ 3 Algorithms @ 3 Data Structures @ 3 Machine Learning @ 3 PyTorch @ 2 CUDA @ 3 GPU @ 3 Deep Learning @ 3 AI @ 3 Slurm @ 3 HPC @ 3

Details

NVIDIA is a worldwide technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. NVIDIA manufactures graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-chip units (SOCs). This internship joins the team responsible for maintenance, development, and execution of Desktop Gaming Performance testing in Linux and Windows environments for GPUs. The role has a preferred duration of 8–12 months.

Responsibilities

  • Write and maintain containerized GPU-accelerated workloads for financial services use cases, including deep learning training and inference, portfolio optimization, and backtesting.
  • Run, validate, and analyze benchmarking models at scale on HPC clusters.
  • Visualize performance data and build charts and dashboards using internal schemas and tooling.
  • Work closely with financial AI models and tooling to help build reference models for NVIDIA.

Requirements

  • Enrolled in a Bachelor's program in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
  • Desire to improve code quality using computer science fundamentals, algorithms, and data structures.
  • Comfortable working in teams and collaborating across functions.
  • Active experience with Python.
  • Working comfort in a Linux command-line environment with version control.
  • Foundational understanding and interest in the machine learning lifecycle (training, evaluation, inference).

Ways to stand out

  • Familiarity with PyTorch and/or training, testing, and evaluating machine learning models.
  • Experience with GPU computing or CUDA and related libraries (cuOPT, CUTLASS, cuDNN, etc.).
  • Exposure to workload orchestration and job schedulers (Kubernetes, Slurm).
  • Experience with containerized applications and resource management.
  • Interest in quantitative finance and applying performance data to real-world problems.

Compensation and Benefits

  • Internship hourly rate: 20 USD - 71 USD.
  • Eligible for NVIDIA intern benefits (link provided in original posting).

Additional information

  • Applications accepted at least until July 10, 2026.
  • This posting is for an existing vacancy. NVIDIA uses AI tools in recruiting processes and is an equal opportunity employer.