PhD Research Intern, Generative AI

Nvidia

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TL;DR · PhD Research Intern, Generative AI

As a PhD Research Intern, Generative AI - 2026, you will join the team building Cosmos world foundation models and generative AI systems for Physical AI across robotics, autonomous driving, smart spaces, and embodied agents. You will conduct research in generative AI, multimodal foundation models, world models, and embodied AI while developing algorithms for video understanding, action-conditioned simulation, multimodal reasoning, and policy learning. Your daily work involves training and evaluating large-scale models using video, image, language, and robotics or autonomous driving data. To succeed, you must possess a strong background in computer vision, multimodal learning, or reinforcement learning alongside proficiency in Python and PyTorch. You will collaborate with researchers and engineers across AI, robotics, simulation, and graphics teams to solve complex problems involving multimodal world understanding and synthetic data generation for embodied reasoning systems.

What you'll do

  • Conduct research in generative AI, multimodal foundation models, world models, and embodied AI.
  • Develop algorithms for video understanding, generation, action-conditioned simulation, and multimodal reasoning.
  • Develop policies for robotics and autonomous driving systems.
  • Train and evaluate large-scale models using video, image, language, and robotics data.
  • Publish research findings at top-tier academic conferences.
  • Translate innovative research into functional NVIDIA products.

What we're looking for

  • Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or related fields.
  • Strong background in generative AI, computer vision, multimodal learning, robotics, or reinforcement learning.
  • Prior publication record and research experience.
  • Proficiency in Python and PyTorch.
  • Experience with large-scale foundation model training.
  • Research experience in video models, VLMs, world models, robotics, or autonomous driving.
  • Experience with distributed training, simulation, or embodied AI.

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