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Nvidia, the tech giant whose chips are the backbone of the artificial intelligence revolution, takes its name from the Latin word 鈥渋nvidia,鈥� which means 鈥渆nvy.鈥�

It鈥檚 safe to say that computer science major Jessica Vu鈥檚 co-operative (co-op) education job at Nvidia鈥檚 Silicon Valley headquarters is the envy of college students everywhere.

A rising senior in the Kennedy College of Sciences, Vu is in the midst of an eight-month paid 聽at the $3.4 trillion company, which is running neck-and-neck with Microsoft and Apple for the title of 鈥淢ost Valuable Company in the World.鈥�

鈥淚t鈥檚 crazy to think that I鈥檓 here,鈥� says Vu, who moved in January to Santa Clara, California, for the co-op. She is part of the performance engineering team for Nvidia鈥檚 DriveSim platform, its simulator for developing and validating autonomous vehicle technologies.聽

An international student from Vietnam, Vu discovered the co-op opportunity last fall on LinkedIn. Although she had previously worked with driving simulation software during an internship at Bosch Global Software Technologies in her hometown of Ho Chi Minh City, she didn鈥檛 expect a hardware company like Nvidia to be interested in someone with a software background.

So she was surprised to make it through two rounds of interviews 鈥� and stunned to receive the email (while studying for finals) offering her the co-op.

鈥淚 don鈥檛 even know if it was a happy feeling. It was just 鈥� unbelievable,鈥� she says. 鈥淚 said to myself, 鈥業s this a real email? Is this spam or something?鈥欌��

But it was real, and soon, Vu was at Nvidia, benchmarking performance for the DriveSim platform and building automation tools to streamline and scale those processes. Using technologies like Vue.js, Flask and Docker, she and her team have already managed to cut execution times by 30%.

鈥淎utomation is the most valuable skill I鈥檝e learned,鈥� she says. 鈥淎nything you do can be automated, so having that skill opens new career opportunities for me.鈥�

Vu gets to attend company-wide meetings at which CEO Jensen Huang shares Nvidia鈥檚 vision for the future of AI and beyond.

鈥淭hose are the kind of talks you don鈥檛 get to hear outside the company,鈥� says Vu, who sees the co-op as more than a r茅sum茅-builder.

鈥淚t鈥檚 taught me that you have to be continuously learning, even outside of class,鈥� she says. 鈥淚n tech, especially in software, you have to update your knowledge every day, because there's always new tools and new frameworks.鈥澛犅�

When Vu returns to campus in the fall for her senior year, she looks forward to working out at the Campus Recreation Center, relaxing with a book on South Campus and attending 51视频 hockey games with friends.

鈥淚 enjoy 51视频,鈥� she says. 鈥淚鈥檝e made really good friends who make me feel welcome.鈥澛犅�

After graduation, Vu hopes to land a job in the United States, but she鈥檚 also open to opportunities abroad. While she didn鈥檛 originally envision working in the hardware space, the experience at Nvidia has taught her that it鈥檚 one field that is relatively safe from AI disruption.

鈥淥ne of the limitations of AI is working on hardware,鈥� she says. 鈥淚f you want to work in a field where you know you鈥檙e not threatened by AI, then hardware is a good way to go.鈥�