Hardware Applications Engineer - New College Grad 2026

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA

NVIDIA is seeking a Hardware Applications Engineer for their enterprise solution space, focusing on datacenter products. The role involves system design reviews, resolving integration issues, understanding HPC and AI workload requirements, customer support, and hardware debug using lab tools. Requires a BS/MS/PhD in Engineering or related field, strong analytical skills, understanding of server architecture, and excellent communication skills.

What you'd actually do

  1. Perform system design reviews for data center applications to ensure partner designs meet NVIDIA guidelines.
  2. Work on resolving system integration issues related to thermal, mechanical, electrical, PCIe and GPU interconnect interfaces including out-of-band management services.
  3. Understand system design requirements for High Performance Computing and AI workloads to drive platform configuration guides for x86 and ARM servers.
  4. Conduct the installation, configuration and bring-up of enterprise server hardware.
  5. Work directly with our NVIDIA customers, and analyze data to answer questions, reproduce errors, resolve same, or escalate customer issues.

Skills

Required

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Systems Engineering, related field or equivalent experience
  • strong analytical skills
  • reviewing enterprise system design
  • CPU architecture
  • x86 and ARM system architecture for server design
  • BMC, security and out-of-band management
  • Professional-level interpersonal skills
  • adjust your communication to the technical level of the audience
  • accurately and succinctly communicate procedures, results, and recommendations to customers
  • using lab tools such as oscilloscopes, multi-meters and logic analyzers
  • Linux
  • Windows OS