Entry-Level AI Engineering Jobs

Sierra

Sierra is seeking an Applied Research Intern to join their team focused on improving the performance, speed, and cost-efficiency of AI agents. This internship offers a unique opportunity to work on a research project from conception to potential publication, with the guidance of a mentor. The intern will tackle real-world AI agent challenges, conduct rigorous experiments, and contribute to advancements in agent evaluation, reasoning, and post-training methods. The role is ideal for individuals passionate about making AI agents more reliable and effective, with the potential for their research to impact millions of users.

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NVIDIA is seeking a GenAI Algorithms Intern to optimize state-of-the-art generative AI models, including LLMs, VLMs, and diffusion models, for maximum inference efficiency. This role involves designing, implementing, and productionizing model optimization algorithms for deployment on NVIDIA's latest hardware. The focus is on improving ease of use, compute and memory efficiency, and achieving optimal accuracy-performance trade-offs through software-hardware co-design. Your work will span multiple layers of the AI software stack, from algorithm design to integration within NVIDIA's ecosystem and open-source frameworks, with potential for GPU-level optimization including custom kernel development.

$118k - $261k

NVIDIA's Compute Developer Technology (Devtech) team is seeking a passionate computer science student for an AI Developer Technology internship. This role offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge techniques in deep learning, graphs, machine learning, and data analytics, focusing on performance optimization for current and next-generation GPU architectures. You will engage directly with key customers to understand their challenges and provide AI solutions leveraging GPUs, while also collaborating with internal NVIDIA teams to influence future architectures and software platforms.

€48k - €83k

Fireworks is seeking a Member of Technical Staff on the Research team, designed for individuals completing their PhD who want to see their work deployed in production. This role involves pushing the boundaries of generative AI, advancing LLMs and multimodal systems through foundational research. Your work will focus on enhancing model efficiency, accuracy, and scalability, directly contributing to our high-performance AI infrastructure. You will be paired with a senior researcher for mentorship and tackle a real research problem from day one, collaborating with experts in deep learning, distributed systems, and optimization. The goal is to see the models you help create deployed by leading companies, often within weeks.

$200k - $300k

Stripe

Stripe is seeking PhD machine learning engineering interns for the summer of 2027 to contribute to critical projects that enhance Stripe's products. Interns will focus on areas such as foundation models for fraud detection, enhanced support, and user behavior prediction. This role offers an exceptional opportunity to work on challenging problems at the intersection of finance, technology, and data, including creative projects like the Stripe Assistant and the Stripe Foundation Model, leveraging machine learning to revolutionize business interactions with financial services.

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CoreWeave

CoreWeave is seeking a Junior Software Engineer to join their Inference team. In this role, you will be responsible for the end-to-end ownership of a production service, including feature development, maintenance of dashboards and alarms, and operational improvements. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance key service level indicators and contribute to the development of a cutting-edge inference platform that powers generative AI and real-time applications at scale.

$120k - $160k

Salesforce AI Labs is seeking exceptional emerging AI and computer science talent for a highly selective, 12-week summer internship program designed to develop the next generation of AI builders. Interns will spend 12 weeks embedded in one of four disciplines (Product Engineering, Product Management, FDE/Builders, or DET/Customer Zero), tackling real technical, product, or customer challenges and building with frontier AI technologies. You will work alongside experienced researchers, engineers, product managers, and technical leaders, with access to AI-native development tools and opportunities to take meaningful ownership of your work. While gaining hands-on experience in one discipline, you will also collaborate with interns across other disciplines on a cross-functional capstone project, culminating in a final presentation at Demo Day.

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NVIDIA Research is seeking exceptional systems researchers to contribute to the development of hardware, software, and infrastructure technology for ML systems of all scales. Advances in AI/ML heavily rely on the development of efficient, scalable, resilient, and trustworthy systems for training, fine-tuning, and serving ML models. AI/ML applications are also pushing the limits of both personal devices and warehouse-scale data centers. All layers of AI systems need to be co-designed and co-optimized to maximize performance and energy efficiency, improve scalability, and support emerging algorithms in this space. We are seeking candidates that have a proven track record of research excellence, a broad perspective on systems design across the full hardware/software/infrastructure stack, and depth in one of the layers such as AI/ML systems, operating systems, distributed systems, data management, cloud computing, and computer architecture.

$168k - $265k

Stripe

Stripe is seeking Master's machine learning engineering interns for the summer of 2027. This internship offers a unique opportunity to contribute to critical projects that enhance Stripe's products, with a focus on foundation models for tasks like fraud detection, customer support, and user behavior prediction. Interns will tackle complex challenges at the intersection of finance, technology, and data, working on innovative projects such as the Stripe Assistant and the Stripe Foundation Model to transform how businesses engage with financial services and data.

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CoreWeave

CoreWeave is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Inference team, focusing on shipping production features that enhance model serving on their GPU platform. This role involves improving latency, reliability, and cost-efficiency. As an IC1, you will implement well-scoped changes, learn operational practices, and grow with mentorship from experienced engineers. CoreWeave is the essential cloud for AI, providing a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enable innovators to build and scale AI with confidence.

$92k - $135k

NVIDIA's Seattle Robotics Lab is seeking Research Scientists to contribute to fundamental and applied robotics research across perception, planning, control, and learning. This role involves developing algorithms and models for robotic manipulation and loco-manipulation, integrating them into real-world systems, and engaging with the academic community through publications and code releases. You will collaborate with product managers and engineering teams to transfer research into NVIDIA products and mentor interns. The lab aims to build essential technology enabling companies to become robotics leaders, targeting grand challenges and achieving new capabilities within 2-3 years.

$168k - $265k

CoreWeave

CoreWeave is seeking a curious, energetic, and innovative Software and AI Engineer to join their Strategy and Transformation team. This role focuses on building intelligent internal systems, AI-powered workflows, and first-party applications that enhance how CoreWeave operates. You will partner with various departments like Finance, Supply Chain, HR, and Legal to integrate enterprise platforms and develop AI solutions. This position is ideal for an early-career engineer looking to grow at the intersection of software engineering, product development, and applied AI, contributing across the full development lifecycle from implementation to production support.

$120k - $160k

NVIDIA is seeking world-class deep learning researchers to build the next generation of AI for graphics and gaming. This role focuses on step-change research that delivers undeniable user experience improvements, driving fundamental AI research into products used by millions. You will conduct cutting-edge research, train advanced models, prototype in real-time engines, and collaborate with product, driver, and hardware teams to bring innovative ideas to market. If you are passionate about deep learning, real-time graphics, and delivering transformative technology directly into games and graphics applications, this is an excellent opportunity.

$168k - $265k

NVIDIA is seeking an AI Systems Software Engineering Intern to contribute to compilers and developer tools by applying AI agents, machine learning, and performance engineering. Interns will collaborate with compiler and AI engineers on projects involving code, compiler feedback, performance experiments, and optimization. The role offers opportunities to focus on agentic workflows, learned models, performance analysis, or AI-enabled developer tools, depending on the intern's background and interests. Experience in all areas is not required.

$0k - $0k

NVIDIA is seeking a VLSI CAD Timing Intern focused on Applied AI for Summer 2027. This role involves end-to-end solution development for timing and constraint analysis workflows, including data generation, model training, orchestration, and agentic automation. You will join a cross-disciplinary team building intelligent systems that learn from sign-off data, reason across flows, and assist engineers in achieving faster and more predictable closure. This is an opportunity to contribute to a "learning machine" that constantly evolves by adapting to new opportunities that matter to the world, amplifying human inventiveness and intelligence.

$0k - $0k

NVIDIA is seeking New College Graduates to join our GPU compute architecture and performance engineering team. This role focuses on pre-silicon modeling, data-supported architecture exploration, and GPU microarchitecture improvement for generative AI workloads, including LLM inference and agentic AI. You will contribute to improving the efficiency and scalability of these models on NVIDIA platforms, gaining hands-on experience with performance modeling, bottleneck analysis, and system-level analysis. This is an opportunity to shape the performance of next-generation AI models in data center and edge environments by developing system-level modeling and correlation solutions.

$124k - $242k

NVIDIA Research is seeking a PhD researcher to conduct groundbreaking research at the intersection of AI, GPU computing, and Electronic Design Automation (EDA). This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of chip design, which is being transformed by deep learning and GPU acceleration. We are looking for creative and collaborative individuals interested in tackling new challenges and contributing to a world-class technology employer.

$168k - $265k

NVIDIA is seeking research interns with a strong background in applying modern AI methods to re-imagine technology across Earth System Simulation and Analytics. This role involves research on applied topics such as generative data assimilation, hybrid climate simulation, full model emulation of climate model components, regional-to-global high-resolution AI autoregressive weather prediction, and dynamical downscaling. We are looking for creative, independent, and self-starting individuals to help invent the future of AI in climate science. The ideal candidate will have strong computer science skills with knowledge of physical domain sciences, or strong domain science skills with sufficient technical expertise. Join a diverse research group that tackles challenging interdisciplinary problems, publishes at top venues, and drives real impact on NVIDIA products and global climate prediction.

$0k - $0k

Our team builds AI-driven software systems for Circuit Design, combining automation algorithms, deep learning models, and agentic workflows to accelerate end-to-end design automation. We are looking for an Applied Machine Learning Engineer to join our integral team in the Circuit Solutions Group. You will work within a multi-functional team on various projects involving pre-silicon and post-silicon custom circuit design, circuit/layout optimization, and Spice correlation. This role involves researching and implementing frontier solutions in electronic design automation and building innovative agentic AI solutions for VLSI design problems. You will be responsible for analyzing problems and datasets, validating hypotheses, and designing and building models and algorithms to achieve desired quality of results.

$116k - $230k

NVIDIA Research is seeking a world-class generative AI researcher to join its fundamental generative AI research team. The team focuses on advancing generative AI methods for scientific applications, including biomolecular design (small molecule, protein, and RNA design). The role involves fundamental research with the freedom to conduct ground-breaking work, aiming to push the boundaries of generative models and create real-world impact. Researchers will collaborate with a talented team that consistently publishes at top venues in machine learning and AI for science.

$168k - $265k

NVIDIA is at the forefront of visual and AI computing, driven by our pioneering work with GPUs. We are seeking a GPU PCIe and Boot Architect to join our team and design the architecture and infrastructure for critical system functions including boot, PCIe/CXL enumeration, and capability discovery. This role involves collaborating with global software, hardware, and verification teams to shape the next generation of GPUs, creating functional and performance models, and supporting post-silicon validation. If you are creative, autonomous, and passionate about building the industry's highest-performance chips, we encourage you to apply.

$108k - $196k

NVIDIA's Autonomous Systems and Physical AI Research (ASPIRE) group is seeking top Research Scientists to advance the field of intelligent machines for autonomous vehicles, robotics, and physical AI. This role focuses on fundamental research challenges, including developing new training paradigms, ensuring safety and reliability in critical applications, enabling navigation in novel environments, and building systems that reason and interact safely with humans and other agents. Researchers are encouraged to publish their work and contribute to open-source projects, collaborating with internal product teams and external researchers to influence real-world products while pursuing groundbreaking research.

$168k - $265k

NVIDIA is developing advanced foundation models and generative AI systems for Physical AI applications, including robotics, autonomous driving, smart spaces, and embodied agents. The NVIDIA Cosmos Platform facilitates multimodal world understanding, simulation, synthetic data generation, and embodied reasoning. We are seeking talented PhD interns to contribute to the advancement of Physical AI and world models.

$0k - $0k

NVIDIA's Autonomous Systems and Physical AI Research (ASPIRE) group is seeking outstanding Research Interns to contribute to cutting-edge work in autonomous vehicles, robotics, and physical AI. This role involves tackling fundamental research challenges to enable intelligent machines to perceive, reason, and safely interact with the physical world and people. The group focuses on foundational research areas including foundation model design, embodied reasoning, safety, closed-loop training and evaluation, and agentic workflows for Physical AI. Interns will be encouraged to publish their work and open-source their code, collaborating with experts across NVIDIA to influence real-world products while conducting groundbreaking research.

$0k - $0k