NVIDIA 2026 Internships: PhD Large Language Models Research
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NVIDIA pioneered accelerated computing to tackle challenges no one else can solve. Our work in AI and digital twins is transforming the world's largest industries and profoundly impacting society — from gaming to robotics, self-driving cars to life-saving healthcare, climate change to virtual worlds where we can all connect and create.
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, and creative individuals who are passionate about helping us tackle challenges no one else can solve.
Learn more about Research at NVIDIA.
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 PhD degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, for the entire duration of the internship.
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
Synthethic data generation
Multimodal and Vision Language Models
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
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You will also be eligible for Intern benefits.
Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.

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