# Research Intern - Autonomous Vehicle Applied Research

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Job type**: internship
**Salary**: $20-$71 per hour
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join the Autonomous Vehicle (AV) Applied Research team at NVIDIA and contribute to advancing safe autonomy through generative world models and synthetic data. As a Research Intern, you will work on developing and using world models to understand data coverage, generate targeted driving scenarios, and study how synthetic data can improve AV models.

**Responsibilities:**

- Research and prototype generative world models, traffic world models, and synthetic-data generation methods for autonomous driving.

- Develop traffic world models that capture multi-agent interactions and realistic, reactive behaviors.

- Design methods for controllable generation of diverse, interactive, and safety-critical driving scenarios.

- Explore how generative video models, multimodal foundation models, and simulation can improve training-data quality, diversity, and coverage.

- Conduct experiments to understand how generated data affects AV model performance, robustness, and generalization.

- Collaborate with researchers and engineers across NVIDIA on research prototypes and experimental systems.

- Contribute to high-impact research publications and open research efforts.

**Requirements:**

- Currently pursuing a Ph.D. or M.S. in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Robotics, or a related field.

- Strong foundations in machine learning and deep learning.

- Experience in one or more of the following areas: generative models, video generation, multimodal learning, 3D computer vision, autonomous driving, or robotics.

- Strong Python programming skills and experience with modern deep learning frameworks.

- Self-motivated, collaborative, and comfortable working in a research environment with open-ended problems.

**Benefits:**

- Competitive hourly rate: $20-$71 per hour

- Comprehensive benefits package

- Opportunity to work with a talented team of researchers and engineers

- Chance to contribute to high-impact research publications and open research efforts

## Skills

### Required
- machine learning
- deep learning
- Python programming
- generative models
- multimodal learning

### Nice to have
- autonomous driving
- robotics
- 3D computer vision
- video generation
- synthetic-data generation

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