Summer 2027
Robotics Intern
Ph.D. Research
Updated on 9/7/2026
NVIDIA
10,001+ employees
Designs GPUs and AI HPC platforms
Compensation Overview
$38 - $94/hr
Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Remote
PhD
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- Must be actively enrolled in a university pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field for the full duration of the internship.
- The anticipated graduation date, including month and year, must be clearly indicated on the resume or curriculum vitae.
- Depending on the internship, candidates may need programming skills and technology experience with Python, C++, CUDA, deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow, and physics simulation frameworks such as Isaac Sim/Lab or MuJoCo.
- Strong research background with publications at top conferences.
- Research experience in at least one relevant area, including robotic manipulation and control, perception and world understanding, robot learning and reasoning, simulation and sim-to-real or real-to-sim, motion planning and navigation, or synthetic data generation.
- Work with robotics experts to define a research project.
- Design and implement novel robotics methods.
- Collaborate with research team members and internal product teams.
- Transfer research to product groups to enable new products or product types.
- Deliver prototypes, patents, products, and/or original research publications.
- Experience with large-scale model training.
NVIDIA designs and manufactures graphics processing units (GPUs) and computing platforms used for gaming, data centers, and artificial intelligence. These products work by using parallel processing to handle complex mathematical calculations much faster than standard computer processors, supported by a software ecosystem that allows developers to build and run AI models. Unlike competitors that may focus solely on hardware, NVIDIA integrates its chips with specialized software and cloud services to create a complete environment for high-performance tasks. The company’s goal is to provide the underlying technology necessary to power advanced computing, from realistic video game graphics to autonomous vehicles and large-scale data analysis.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Santa Clara, California
Founded
1993
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Amazon ordered 2 million GPUs for 2027-2028, validating hyperscaler demand.
- August 2026 Lancium investment secured 4 GW leased capacity and 15 GW pipeline.
- Blackwell Ultra and Vera Rubin shipments began; production ships in late 2026.
What critics are saying
- Taiwan prosecutors indicted NVIDIA staff August 24, 2026 over illegal China server exports.
- China’s antitrust probe still threatens fines, remedies, and slower mainland sales.
- China export controls and ASIC substitution can cut NVIDIA off from a trillion-dollar market.
What makes NVIDIA unique
- CUDA and NVLink lock developers into NVIDIA’s full-stack AI platform.
- FY2026 revenue hit $215.9 billion, with data center revenue $193.7 billion.
- Rubin launched February 2026, targeting 10x lower inference costs than Blackwell.
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