Circuit Design Engineer, Power Modeling and Simulation - New College Grad 2026

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA

Circuit Design Engineer focused on Power Modeling and Simulation for NVIDIA's processor designs, involving modeling and simulation of analog and digital circuits, power delivery networks, and ensuring reliability and performance. Requires Master's or PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering and knowledge of industry-standard simulation and EDA tools.

What you'd actually do

  1. Participate in innovative Processor design in deep submicron technologies.
  2. Work as part of a global circuits team to design innovative power delivery and power management solutions.
  3. You'll model and simulate analog and digital circuits and systems in a variety of environments with different degrees of abstraction and complexity.
  4. Model and simulate power delivery networks (PDN) from die level all the way to platform level.
  5. Perform detailed block-level and system-level simulations to ensure good reliability, performance, and stability of the designs.

Skills

Required

  • Master's or PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering (or equivalent experience)
  • Knowledge of industry-standard electromagnetic simulation tools (such as ANSYS or Sigrity)
  • Experience with modeling and simulation using Matlab/Simulink, Simplis, Spice, VerilogAMS, mixed-signal RTL+spice, s-parameters, etc.
  • Knowledge of associated power delivery networks.
  • Familiarity/experience with industry-standard design and EDA tools (Cadence Virtuoso, Allegro) and circuit simulation tools (HSpice, Spectre, Primesim, XA, etc)

Nice to have

  • Experience modeling and simulating complex power delivery networks for CPU/GPU.
  • Hands-on experience simulating digital and analog circuits and control loops is a plus.
  • Proficiency in scripting language, such as, Perl, Tcl, Python, Skill, and automation methods/algorithms is a plus.

What the JD emphasized

  • strong self-starter
  • highly motivated individual
  • find solutions to hard technical problems