NVIDIA 2027 Internships: Software Engineering - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$20 - $71 USD yearly
Originally posted 19 August 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This internship involves working on software engineering projects that have a measurable impact on NVIDIA's business.
What you'll do
- Debug complex system-level issues using Jenkins
- Support overall architecture and design of cloud storage infrastructure
- Implement and troubleshoot storage and data platform tools, automating storage infrastructure end-to-end
- Build infrastructure for backend analytics
- Enable content running on the chip from application tracing and analysis to modeling, diagnostics, and performance tuning
What you'll need
- Actively enrolled in a university pursuing a B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
- Experience with Relational Databases, Linear Algebra & Numerical Methods, Operating Systems (memory/resource management), Scheduling and Process Control, or Hardware Virtualization
- Experience with Distributed Systems, Data Structures & Algorithms, Virtualization, Automation/Scripting, Container & Cluster Management, or Debugging
- Experience with Unix/Shell Scripting, Linux, Java, JavaScript (Node, React, Vue), C++, CUDA, OOP, Go, Python, Git, GitLab, Perforce, Kubernetes and Microservices, Schedulers (LSF, SLURM), Containers (Docker), or Configuration Automation (Ansible)
- Experience with Data Preprocessing, Training Acceleration (CUDA, cuDNN, NCCL), Convolution Operations (cuDNN), or Real-Time Inference (TensorRT)
Skills: cloud storage infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Container & Cluster Management, GPU Computing, Deep Learning Frameworks
This role has been open 58 days — slightly above the 51-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
974
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Median days open
51 d
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Median salary
$236k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (974 roles · 86 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 281 | 974 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 991 | 6157 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 45 d | 51 d (−6 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: cloud storage infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Container & Cluster Management, GPU Computing, Deep Learning Frameworks
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 281 open roles · median 46 d
- Qualcomm · 61 open roles · median 55 d
- AMD · 55 open roles · median 22 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 91 d
- Intel Corporation · 41 open roles · median 10 d
- Cerebras · 39 open roles · median 81 d
How we counted: 974 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 86 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 16 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.