Systems Software Engineer - New College Grad 2026

NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Hillsboro, OR

Systems Software Engineer role focused on applying AI and computational methods to accelerate semiconductor manufacturing and design using GPUs. The role involves developing and optimizing complex software solutions, with a strong emphasis on performance and parallel programming.

What you'd actually do

  1. Working with some of the best technologists in the world to build industry-leading advanced computational methods for advanced semiconductor manufacturing and design.
  2. Exploiting the potential of the GPU to dramatically accelerate these software solutions.
  3. Ultimately, keeping the cadence of semiconductor innovation alive by accelerating semiconductor yield and time to market.

Skills

Required

  • MS or PhD in Computer Science or Computer Engineering (or equivalent experience)
  • developing and delivering complex software solutions for enabling or improving semiconductor fabrication and design
  • advanced computational and AI systems
  • ML/AI techniques and deep learning fundamentals
  • low-level performance optimization
  • parallel programming models like CUDA
  • algorithms, data structures, and computational theory

Nice to have

  • technical leader
  • industry expert
  • massively distributed computing
  • computational geometry
  • diffractive optics

What the JD emphasized

  • advanced computational methods for advanced semiconductor manufacturing and design
  • AI systems
  • low-level performance optimization
  • parallel programming models like CUDA

Other signals

  • GPU acceleration
  • semiconductor manufacturing and design
  • computational methods
  • AI systems