Software Engineer, Physical Design Infrastructure - New College Grad 2026

About the role

NVIDIA is seeking a Software Engineer for Physical Design Infrastructure. This role involves designing and supporting mechanisms for coordinating and maintaining large-scale semiconductor design tasks across multiple global datacenters. The candidate will also build web interfaces to configure, launch, and analyze EDA tools and design flows, contribute to the modernization of legacy services, and mine and analyze large datasets of job execution telemetry and tool quality-of-results data to improve flows and catch regressions.

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 base salary ranging from $100,000 to $166,750 for Level 1 and $116,000 to $189,750 for Level 2, along with equity and benefits. Applications are open until July 27, 2026.