Physical Design Methodology and Operations Engineer - New College Grad 2026

About the role

We are seeking a Physical Design Methodology and Operations Engineer to join our team. This role involves designing and supporting mechanisms for coordinating and maintaining large-scale semiconductor design tasks across multiple global datacenters. You will also build web interfaces to configure, launch, and analyze EDA tools and design flows, contribute to the modernization of legacy services, and help invent next-generation semiconductor design methodology.

Responsibilities

• Designing and supporting mechanisms for coordinating and maintaining large-scale semiconductor design tasks across multiple global datacenters.
• Owning, debugging, and improving production services spanning web browsers, containerized microservices, and bare-metal Linux hosts.
• Building web interfaces to configure, launch, and analyze EDA tools and design flows.
• Contributing to the modernization of legacy services — migrating and re-architecting backends, improving reliability and observability.
• Mining and analyzing large datasets of job execution telemetry and tool quality-of-results data to improve flows and catch regressions.
• Helping invent next-generation semiconductor design methodology.
• (Optional) Contributing directly to the physical design of GPU/SoC products — a rare opportunity for an infrastructure engineer.

Requirements

• Recent graduate with a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or Computer Systems Engineering (or equivalent experience).
• Programming and scripting skills in one or more languages such as Python, Perl, C, or JavaScript.
• Knowledge about distributed systems and how large-scale compute infrastructure works.
• Shown knowledge in web technologies and programming.
• Linux experience.

Qualifications

• Any exposure to workflow orchestration concepts or tools (Airflow, Argo, Luigi, or similar).
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with Elasticsearch / Kibana / Vega for telemetry and dashboarding.
• Familiarity with MSSQL/Mysql/SQLite or other relational and NoSQL datastores.
• Exposure to Static Timing Analysis or VLSI physical design.

Benefits

NVIDIA offers a competitive compensation package including a base salary range of $100,000 - $166,750 for Level 1 and $116,000 - $189,750 for Level 2, along with equity and benefits.

Pay

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.

Schedule

This posting is for an existing vacancy. Applications will be accepted at least until July 19, 2026.