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Silicon Co-Design Engineer - New College Grad 2026

NVIDIA· Engineer, ASIC
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Santa Clara, CA$116k - $189.8kfull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Role focused on productizing NVIDIA chips through silicon validation, characterization, and optimization to refine future designs and improve energy efficiency. Requires lab readiness, problem solving, and strong software/hardware skills.

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 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 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 ROI of new techniques and features, including use case benefit and design-for-productization.

Qualifications

  • Completing a BS, MS or PhD 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++

Skills

Required:Problem solvingDigital designProgramming

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Benefits (as listed on NVIDIA benefits page)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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