If you’re passionate about building cutting-edge technology and want to work with one of the world’s leading AI and accelerated computing companies, this is an exciting opportunity. NVIDIA is hiring a Software Engineer in Santa Clara, California, offering a competitive salary ranging from $168,000 to $265,000 per year. You’ll have the chance to collaborate with world-class engineers, solve complex technical challenges, and contribute to products that power AI, gaming, robotics, autonomous vehicles, and high-performance computing.
Job Overview
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Company Name | NVIDIA |
| Role | Software Engineer |
| Qualification | Bachelor’s, Master’s, or higher degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience) |
| Job Location | Santa Clara, California, USA |
| Salary | $168,000–$265,000 per year |
| Work Type | Hybrid/On-site (based on team requirements) |
| Job Type | Full-Time |
| Job Level | Entry Level to Senior Level |
| Industry | Semiconductor, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Hardware & Software |
Job Description
We are now looking for a Software Engineer for Physical Design Infrastructure! You’ll join a small team that owns the infrastructure powering NVIDIA’s semiconductor design flows — coordinating hundreds of thousands of jobs per day across datacenters with 10,000+ hosts, serving over 1,000 chip designers worldwide. Our platform spans job orchestration, event-driven trigger systems, global service interconnection, web interfaces to tools, and a Jenkins-like CI/CD backbone — a production system with direct stakes in GPU, CPU, SoC and networking tapeouts. You’ll lead a functional area within the team while contributing across broader operations. There’s genuine latitude here: our stack includes mature Perl and Python services alongside modern React frontends and Elasticsearch-based telemetry, and we’re actively modernizing. If you want to inherit something real, improve it, and leave it better than you found it, this role is for you.
What you’ll be doing:
- 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.
- Optionally, contributing directly to the physical design of GPU/SoC products — a rare opportunity for an infrastructure engineer.
What we need to see:
- 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.
Ways to stand out from the crowd:
- 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.
Selection Process
- Online application submission
- Resume screening
- Technical assessment (if applicable)
- Technical interview rounds
- Hiring manager interview
- HR discussion
- Offer and background verification
How to Apply
- Visit the official NVIDIA Careers website.
- Search for Software Engineer jobs in Santa Clara, California.
- Review the job description and eligibility requirements.
- Click the Apply button.
- Sign in or create an NVIDIA Careers account.
- Complete the online application form.
- Upload your updated resume and any required documents.
- Submit your application and monitor your email for updates from the recruitment team.
