Nvidia
Applied Systems Engineering Rotation Engineer - New College Graduate 2026
US, CA, Santa Clara · Junior · Internship
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About the role
- NVIDIA is looking for enthusiastic New College Graduates to join the Applied Systems Engineering team in a 12-month rotation program.
- ASE engages with the entire lifecycle of next-generation AI supercomputing pre-clusters at scale.
- As an Applied Systems Engineering Rotation Engineer, you will move through different teams such as Architecture, Bring-up, and Production.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to system-level designs for large-scale accelerated computing environments, including reusable reference architectures and deployment-specific solutions.
- Evaluate, prototype, and validate emerging infrastructure, hardware, software, firmware, networking, storage, and accelerator technologies.
- Support end-to-end system integration, bring-up, validation, and production-readiness activities across cross-functional engineering teams.
- Define, document, and communicate engineering requirements, design tradeoffs, debug methods, findings, and recommendations.
- Build or improve dashboards, automation, tools, and workflows that support issue detection, diagnosis, recovery, and technical decision-making.
- Present technical work and communicate risks, blockers, status, and recommendations through design reviews, project readouts, and cross-functional forums.
- Experience building dashboards, visualizations, automation, scripts, or lightweight tools used by others.
- Examples of clear technical storytelling, such as presentations, diagrams, demos, research posters, design reviews, or written technical summaries.
- The team creates reference architectures, confirms feasibility through initial end-to-end integration and bring-up, and supports large-scale production environments.
- Throughout four 3-month rotations, you will collaborate with senior engineers and mentors on projects that help NVIDIA design, integrate, validate, operate, and improve large-scale GPU compute clusters.
Requirements
- Experience with software development or scripting in Linux, Bash, Python, C, C++, Java, Go, or similar technologies.
- Experience with Linux systems, containers, Kubernetes, Slurm, networking, storage, cloud infrastructure, or on-prem infrastructure.
- Experience with hardware/software integration, firmware/software lifecycle management, validation, production operations, or system troubleshooting.
- Bachelor's degree or Master's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field.
Compensation
- 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.
Company info
- These environments allow internal teams to run workloads, gather detailed telemetry, and detect and resolve issues before they impact customers.
Equal opportunity
- NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
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