GPU Architect - New College Grad 2026

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA

NVIDIA is seeking new college graduates for its GPU Architecture Group to design and validate GPU profiling and performance telemetry features. The role involves hardware modeling, test development, and infrastructure, with a focus on the world's leading AI platform. Responsibilities include building and maintaining hardware models, writing and executing test plans, contributing to development infrastructure, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

What you'd actually do

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

Skills

Required

  • C++
  • Python
  • Computer architecture
  • AI workload acceleration
  • Performance modeling
  • Hardware simulation
  • Verification

Nice to have

  • SystemC
  • GPU architecture research
  • AI acceleration research
  • CUDA
  • Accelerated computing programming models
  • Profiling tools
  • Performance analysis

What the JD emphasized

  • 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

Other signals

  • GPU architecture
  • AI workload acceleration
  • performance modeling
  • hardware simulation
  • verification