ASIC Design Engineer - New College Grad 2026
NVIDIA· Engineer, ASIC
Santa Clara, CA$100k - $166.8kfull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
ASIC Design Engineer entry-level role at NVIDIA focused on implementing high-performance, area- and power-efficient RTL for GPUs/SoCs, collaborating across design, verification, synthesis, timing, and back-end teams to deliver fully verified designs.
Responsibilities
- As a key member of the GPU Design team, you will implement, document and deliver high performance, area and power efficient RTL to achieve design targets and specifications.
- Analyze architectural trade-offs based on features, performance requirements and system limitations.
- Craft micro-architecture, implement in RTL, and deliver a fully verified, synthesis/timing clean design.
- Collaborate and coordinate with architects, other designers, pre- and post-silicon verification teams, synthesis, timing and back-end teams to accomplish your tasks.
- Work on a broad list of IPs such as GPU's work scheduler, time distribution system, interrupt controllers, and DMA engines.
- Architect features to help silicon debug and support post-silicon validation activities.
Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science.
- Experience in micro-architecture and RTL development (Verilog).
- Good understanding of ASIC design flow including RTL design, verification, logic synthesis and timing analysis.
- Exposure to Digital systems and VLSI design, Computer Architecture, Computer Arithmetic is required.
- Strong interpersonal skills and an excellent teammate.
Skills
Required:VerilogMicro-architectureASIC design flowDigital systems / VLSIInterpersonal skills
Nice to have:C/C++ / Python / PerlDebugging and analytical skillsArbiters, scheduling & bus protocols
Benefits
- You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.
Last updated Jul 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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