Software Engineering Intern, Autonomous Vehicles - 2026

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.