ASIC Verification Engineer - New College Grad 2026

About the role

NVIDIA is seeking an outstanding ASIC Verification Engineer to verify the world’s leading GPUs. This position offers the opportunity to contribute to a dynamic, technology-focused company impacting various product lines including consumer graphics, self-driving cars, and artificial intelligence.

Responsibilities

• Understand the design & implementation with focus on Memory Management unit
• Define the verification scope
• Develop the verification infrastructure (Testbenches, BFMs, Checkers, Monitors)
• Implement test/coverage plans
• Verify the correctness of the design
• Collaborate with architects, designers, software engineers across sites to accomplish goals
• Plan and work on strategic direction of the methodology for the testbench with advanced methodology

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering or equivalent experience
• Exposure to Computer Architecture, ASIC design, and verification methodology
• Strong ability with SystemVerilog, C, and/or C++, test planning, coverage closure, and creating reusable verification components
• Knowledgeable in constrained random testing with functional coverage and assertion-based verification
• Understanding of object-oriented programming concepts
• Exposure to simulation tools like VCS, IES and debug tools like Debussy, GDB
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Good debugging and problem-solving skills

Qualifications

• Understanding of memory subsystem micro-architecture, cache topologies and policies, memory management, interconnects, and/or arbiter designs is a plus
• Experience with Universal Verification Methodology (UVM), SystemVerilog checkers and scoreboards
• Assertion-based verification, Semiformal Verification (SFV)
• Perl or Python knowledge

Skills

• SystemVerilog
• C and/or C++
• Test planning
• Coverage closure
• Reusable verification components
• Constrained random testing
• Functional coverage
• Assertion-based verification
• Semiformal Verification (SFV)
• Perl or Python

Benefits

• Base salary range: $100,000 - $166,750 for Level 1, and $116,000 - $189,750 for Level 2
• Eligible for equity and benefits

Pay

• Base salary determined based on location, experience, and comparable positions

Schedule

• Full-time