Silicon Co-Design Engineer - New College Grad 2026
NVIDIA Santa Clara, CA Full-time 3/17/2026 $100,000 - $189,750 a year
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•FY 2025Job Description
NVIDIA is seeking a candidate to join their Silicon Co-design Engineering Team, responsible for productizing chips into innovative solutions across various sectors. The role involves characterizing silicon, validating system features, and driving root-cause analysis of hardware failures in a lab environment.
Requirements
- Completing a BS or MS degree in EE, CE, Systems Engineering or equivalent experience.
- Problem solving, debugging, analysis and logical reasoning skills with examples to prove it.
- Understanding of digital design, circuit analysis, algorithms, computer architecture, BIOS, drivers, and software applications.
- Strong programming skills in one or more of Python, JavaScript, C/C++.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement methodologies to characterize silicon and validate system features on pre-production silicon.
- Drive root-causes analysis efforts of hardware failures through lab experimentation and collaboration with other teams within NVIDIA.
- Find innovative solutions to sophisticated silicon and system level problems to productize silicon and refine future designs to fine-tune architected features post-silicon.
- Analyze workloads like DL/AI, AAA games, Adobe Suite, and Video Conferencing to understand how we can push market leading energy efficiency.
- Characterize pre-production silicon fabricated using innovative processes for speed, performance, power, yield, and quality to draw correlation to design.
- Design or commission tools on evaluation platforms to automate and optimize characterization, data collection, test case execution, and results analysis.
- Analyze workloads to achieve best-in-class energy efficiency and evaluate the return and investment of new techniques and features, including use case benefit and design-for-productization.
Benefits
- Employees at NVIDIA are often offered comprehensive, day-one benefits—including medical, dental, and vision coverage with HSA support, life and disability insurance, an Employee Assistance Program, and a 401(k) with auto-enrollment. Many roles also have generous time off and holidays, donation matching (up to $10,000), and a wide menu of extras like FSAs, commuter benefits, legal and identity-theft protection, pet insurance, and wellness discounts. Optional programs can include student-loan and home-purchase support, plus family care resources and expert medical services.
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