Software Engineering Intern, Autonomous Vehicles - 2026

Overview

• NVIDIA is searching for engineers to develop and bring NVIDIA's autonomous vehicle out to the world.
• You will participate in a focused effort to develop and productize ground-breaking solutions that will revolutionize the world of transportation and the growing field of self-driving cars.
• You will work with talented and dedicated multi-functional engineering development teams across various subsystems to integrate their work into our autonomous driving DRIVE SW platform, while achieving or exceeding all relevant NVIDIA and automotive standards & guidelines.
• You'll find the work is exciting, fun, and meaningful challenging.
• NVIDIA is a “learning machine” that constantly evolves by adapting to new opportunities that are hard to solve, that only we can pursue, and that matter to the world.
• This is our life’s work: to amplify human creativity and intelligence.
• NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers.
• We have many of the most forward-thinking and talented people in the world working together.
• If you're creative, autonomous, and love challenges, we would love to hear.
• What You'll Be Doing: In this role, you will be collaborating with front-end, back-end engineers as well as machine learning, deep learning experts.
• You will be creating human-in-the-loop and management applications at the frontier of what is possible with AI and getting a front seat view of the action in this very hot space from a team and a company driving the progress at the cutting edge.
• Working together with other excellent engineers to build and maintain the next generation services including build workflows, data mining, and much more.
• Learn and create valuable features for end users and greatly improve NVIDIA autonomous driving product’s user experience.
• Identify areas to improve service resiliency through industry standard practices.
• Working with NVIDIA global teams to build and maintain the next generation system software for autonomous vehicles fleet including telemetry, cloud services, data processing workflow and much more.
• Explore and implement advanced algorithms to extract valuable insights from big data.
• Utilize modern frontend tech-stack to develop intuitive workflows and user-friendly applications.
• Your work will drive the continuous advancement of our autonomous driving solutions.
• What We Need to See: Pursuing BS, MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Proficiency with either frontend or backend technologies.
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
• Ways To Stand Out from the Crowd: Proficient in full-stack development.
• Experienced with AI-assisted coding.
• Strong understanding of Linux systems and Linux-based application and service development.
• Familiar with distributed computing, high-scalability and high-availability design, multithreading, and load balancing for high-performance server architectures.
• In-depth knowledge of automotive or IoT systems is a plus.