GPU Architect - New College Grad 2026

About the role

NVIDIA's GPU Architecture Group seeks new college graduates to join the team that designs and validates GPU profiling and performance telemetry features. You'll contribute to hardware modeling, test development, and infrastructure — with increasing opportunities to influence the design of the world's leading AI platform.

What You'll Be Doing

• Build and maintain functional and performance models for GPU hardware features
• Write and execute test plans to validate designs across configurations
• Contribute to infrastructure that supports the hardware development process
• Collaborate with architects, ASIC designers, and software engineers across teams
• Develop deep knowledge of GPU architecture and the performance analysis domain

What We Need To See

• Pursuing or recently completed a M.S. or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field or equivalent experience (recent graduate or graduating by summer 2026)
• Foundation in computer architecture and AI workload acceleration
• Programming skills in C++ and Python
• Coursework or project experience in performance modeling, hardware simulation, or verification
• Strong communication skills for working across multi-functional teams

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd

• Experience with SystemC or other hardware modeling frameworks
• Research in GPU architecture or AI acceleration
• Hands-on experience with CUDA or other accelerated computing programming models
• Contributions to hardware or architecture projects (academic or open source)
• Familiarity with profiling tools or performance analysis

Pay

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 124,000 USD - 195,500 USD for Level 2, and 152,000 USD - 241,500 USD for Level 3.

Schedule

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until June 13, 2026.