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Nvidia PhD Research Intern Generalist Embodied Agents - Fall 
United States, Texas 
753027475

01.09.2024

You will work with an amazing and collaborative research team that consistently produces influential works on multimodal foundation models, large-scale robot learning, game AI, and physical simulation. Our past projects include

What you will be doing:

  • Design and implement novel AI algorithms and models for general-purpose humanoid robots and embodied agents;

  • Develop large-scale AI training and inference methods for foundation models;

  • Optimize and deploy AI models in physical simulation and on robot hardware;

  • Collaborate with research and engineering teams across all of NVIDIA to transfer research to products and services.

What we need to see:

  • Pursuing a PhD degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Electrical Engineering, etc.

  • Outstanding engineering skills in rapid prototyping and model training frameworks (PyTorch, Jax, Tensorflow, etc.). Python is required; C++ and CUDA proficiencies are a plus.

  • Excellent skills in working with large-scale machine learning/AI systems and compute infrastructure.

  • Experience with at least one of the following areas: multimodal foundation model or robotics.

  • Multimodal Foundation Model:

    • Hands-on training experience and publications in at least one of the following models: LLMs, vision-language models, video generative models, diffusion models, and action-based transformers.

  • Robotics:

    • Hands-on training experience and publications in robot learning, such as reinforcement learning, imitation learning, classical control methods, etc.

    • Deep understanding of robot kinematics, dynamics, and sensors;

    • Ability to safely operate robot hardware, lab equipment, and tools;

    • Knowledge of control methods, such as PID, MPC, whole body control, etc;

    • Familiarity with physics simulation frameworks such as Mujoco and Isaac suite.

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