CareerPlan

Silicon Co-Design Engineer - New College Grad 2026

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$116k–$190k2026-10-22 → 2026-11-10

Core

Productize NVIDIA's chips into consumer, professional, server, mobile, and automotive solutions by characterizing pre-production silicon and validating system features.

Role type

Entry-level silicon co-design engineer

Builds

Pre-production silicon validation plans and system feature characterization for GPU/AI chips

Domain

Semiconductor hardware engineering / AI accelerators

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Digital design, circuit analysis, computer architecture, Python, C/C++, root-cause analysis, lab experimentation, statistical methods

Preferred skills

Signal integrity, timing analysis, fault analysis, database development, web development, deep learning techniques

Technologies

Oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, evaluation platforms

Responsibilities

Develop methodologies to characterize silicon and validate system features; drive root-cause analysis of hardware failures via lab experimentation; analyze workloads (DL/AI, games, video) for energy efficiency; design tools to automate characterization and data collection.

Seniority

Entry-level (New College Grad 2026)