# PhD Research Intern, System Software and I/O Architecture - Fall 2026

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Job type**: internship
**Salary**: $30 - $94 USD per hour
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

NVIDIA is seeking a PhD Research Intern with a focus in System Software and System I/O Architecture to contribute to the development of future fast, scalable storage accesses by GPU threads.

The intern will:

- Develop novel architectures and system software implementations to enable scalable multi-GPU platforms.

- Understand and analyze the interplay between application, operating systems, CPU and GPU architectures, and efficient algorithm designs.

- Collaborate with a diverse set of teams across the company, spanning software research, hardware engineering, and product groups.

- Publish original research and speak at conferences and events.

Requirements:

- Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in CE/CS/EE or similar program area.

- Research experience in computer architecture, operating systems, system administration, compilers, and/or HPC.

- Research experience designing and optimizing accelerated computing applications, with expertise in areas such as LLM inference, GPU-native database engines, and vector similarity search algorithms.

- Demonstrated expertise in one specific area of the above topics with the ability to become the go-to resource within a team from differing backgrounds.

- Experience with experimental computer architecture research, software infrastructure development and evaluation.

- A track record of well-documented open-source software release.

- Ability to work with emerging workloads such as recommender systems, graph analytics, and data frames.

Preferred qualifications:

- Experience with C, C++, CUDA, Python, Rust, and scripting languages. MPI and NCCL would be a plus.

- Strong interpersonal skills and being a creative and dynamic presenter is a huge advantage.

- A strong publication, patent, presentation, and research collaboration history is highly valuable.

The hourly rate for this internship is $30 - $94 USD.

## Skills

### Required
- System Software
- I/O Architecture
- Computer Architecture
- Operating Systems
- Compilers
- HPC
- CUDA
- C
- C++
- Python
- Rust

### Nice to have
- MPI
- NCCL
- Scripting languages
- Interpersonal skills
- Presentation skills
- Publication history
- Patent history
- Research collaboration

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