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An era in which our GPU acts as the brains of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can understand the world. Doing what’s never been done before takes vision, innovation, and the world’s best talent. As an NVIDIAN, you’ll be immersed in an inclusive, encouraging environment where everyone is inspired to do their best work. Come join the team and see how we can make a lasting impact on the world!\nNVIDIA builds data and observability systems that help engineers understand and operate large-scale services. We are looking for an intern who enjoys both asking foundational questions and building working systems to answer them. Working with observability and data platform engineers, you will study how the field may evolve over the next five years, investigate NVIDIA’s data systems, and turn promising ideas into prototypes, measurements, and clear technical recommendations.\nWhat you’ll be doing:\nFind, read, and critically assess research papers, technical reports, architecture documents, and industry material on observability and large-scale data systems. \nTrack the ideas and organizations that may signal meaningful shifts in the field.\nStudy NVIDIA’s relevant data and observability systems through documentation and conversations with engineers.\nIdentify how today’s design choices relate to broader changes in storage, compute, query, and telemetry.\nDevelop an evidence-based view of possible observability pathways, including which trends appear durable, which remain speculative, and what developments would change your assessment.\nInvestigate whether object storage will become more central to observability or whether other architectures may change its role. Evaluate the question across workloads, economics, performance, and operational needs.\nUse AI tools to accelerate discovery, organize sources, and explore competing ideas. Verify important claims against original materials, then develop your own analysis and write original content.\nWrite approximately two substantial whitepapers that explain your findings and propose avenues for further research or experimentation. Where possible, choose a focused prototype, benchmark, or analysis to test an important claim.\nWhat we need to see:\nPursuing a MS or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent program area.\nExperience finding and synthesizing technical literature, evaluating competing claims, and producing clear written analysis through coursework, research, or projects.\nCoursework or project experience in distributed systems, databases, storage, networking, or cloud computing.\nAdvanced programming experience and understanding of complex system implementations, to rigorously investigate technical questions.\nWays to stand out from the crowd:\nTechnical papers, substantial research reports, other writing that turns complex systems material into a clear argument.\nInterest in how observability, data platforms, and infrastructure may evolve as AI and large-scale computing change their workloads.\nExperience with OpenTelemetry (logs, metrics, tracing), object storage, data lakes, and query engines.\nA record of forming independent technical judgments, identifying uncertainty, and revising a position when new evidence warrants it.\nExperimentation in original, non-traditional, creative writing and willingness to learn quickly, ask questions, and collaborate with cross-functional teams.\nNVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the world’s most desirable employers. 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