Graphics Architect, Hardware - New College Grad 2026

NVIDIA • Santa Clara, CA

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About The Position

The NVIDIA GPU Architecture group is looking for creative architects and software developers to join and lead our various architecture efforts. A key part of NVIDIA's strength is to innovate in the graphics and parallel computing fields, delivering the highest performance in the world for graphics processing. We are constantly looking for ways to improve our GPU architecture and maintain our leadership by developing new programming models, new architectures, and new infrastructure that is required to make this successful. What you'll be doing: In this position, you will be responsible for developing and improving various features in the GPU architecture that advance the state of the art in graphics features, performance, and efficiency. You would interact with other world-class architects and researchers to build simulators and infrastructure to design and validate these new features.

Requirements

• You are pursuing a MS Degree in a relevant discipline (CS, EE, Math) or equivalent experience.
• You are passionate about computer architecture and graphics.
• Strong programming ability: C / C++, Perl and Python preferred.
• Background in computer architecture, graphics algorithms, parallel processing, signal processing, ray tracing, and/or high-performance computing.

Nice To Haves

• PhD is a big plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and build new hardware features for future graphics architectures as well as create and evaluate graphics algorithms
• Invent and develop software for various hardware simulators and test infrastructures
• Work in a dynamic team to document, design, develop tools to analyze and simulate, validate, and verify functional or performance models
• Develop tests, test plans, and testing infrastructure for new graphics architectures

Benefits

• Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.
• The base salary range is 108,000 USD - 178,250 USD for Level 1, and 124,000 USD - 195,500 USD for Level 2.
• You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level