Software Engineer Intern, Robotics - 2027

As a Software Engineer intern on the NVIDIA Isaac projects, you will help build the platform for Physical AI robots — enabling sim-first development, real-world deployment, and continuous learning to make them smarter over time. The ideal candidate will have strong software engineering skills for real-time robotics applications and real-world experience with multi-body robots, such as humanoids and surgical robots.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Bring the latest advancements in Physical AI to simulated and real robots by building the runtime framework and healthcare industrial workflows, showcasing the power of NVIDIA's technology.
• Collaborate across team boundaries to integrate NVIDIA robotics products such as Jetson Thor, Isaac GR00T, Holoscan, and Isaac Sim/Lab into the solution for robots.
• Take on a variety of challenges, bridging between research and commercial environments. Deploy and test the developed software on real robots.

What we need to see:

• Master's degree or above in Robotics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Skilled at robotic policy development workflow, from lab to launch: teleoperation, synthetic data generation, domain randomization, VLA and RL post-training, sim2real transfer, deployment with edge AI platforms.
• Familiar with popular VLA and RL algorithms, co-working with robotics researchers to design robotic policy for specific tasks, especially healthcare scenes.
• Proven experience in designing and building robotics software stacks.
• Proficiency in Python, C++, PyTorch. Willingness to learn new languages and tools as needed.
• Ability to adapt to fast-paced development lifecycles, multi-functional organizations, new technologies and platforms.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to determine the best approach to complex challenges. Excellent communication skills and a collaborative approach to working effectively with diverse teams.

Ways to Stand out from The Crowd:

• Familiarity with NVIDIA robotics products such as Jetson, Isaac GR00T, Cosmos, Isaac for healthcare, and Isaac Sim/Lab.
• Experience with VLA / Reinforcement Learning. Experience with healthcare robots, humanoid robots, and surgery robots.

With highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package, NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world's most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us and, due to outstanding growth, our special engineering teams are growing fast. If you're a creative and autonomous engineer with a genuine passion for technology, we want to hear from you!