# Research Scientist Intern - Human Performance and Experience

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Job type**: internship
**Salary**: $38 - $94 USD
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join the Human Performance and Experience (HPX) team at NVIDIA Research as a Research Scientist Intern. The HPX team focuses on cross-disciplinary research in vision between humans and machines. You will work with a diverse team of research scientists and engineers from various backgrounds and collaborate closely with product engineers.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Decompose complex research questions into manageable parts and tackle them iteratively.

- Think critically to identify gaps and creatively bridge them with high-impact solutions.

- Connect with researchers and product engineers to ground research findings in real-world problems.

- Lead knowledge dissemination efforts through publications, conferences, and in-house sharing.

**Requirements:**

- Currently pursuing a Ph.D. or equivalent academic program with a track record of research and publications.

- Deep interest in gaming and/or human behavior in related application domains.

- Training or systematic knowledge in Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Computer Science/Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related fields.

- Proficiency with Python, Rust, and/or C++.

- Experience with AI model training and evaluation frameworks like PyTorch.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Experience with quantitatively modeling human perception, cognition, movement, and/or decision-making.

- Comfortable with modern software development and version-control systems like git.

- Experience with multi-node, multi-GPU training and inference workflows.

- Familiarity with modern deep learning models, including large-scale, multi-modal foundation models.

- Demonstrated public portfolio, such as repositories, OSS contributions, or technical blog posts with code.

**Intern Benefits:**

- Competitive hourly rate: $38 - $94 USD, depending on position, location, year in school, degree, and experience.

- Eligibility for intern benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Rust
- C++
- PyTorch
- Computer Vision
- Human Vision Science
- Robotic Vision
- Cognitive Science
- Neuroscience
- Computer Science/Engineering
- Electrical Engineering

### Nice to have
- Quantitative modeling of human perception
- Multi-node, multi-GPU training
- Modern deep learning models
- Large-scale, multi-modal foundation models
- Git
- Software development

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