# Software Engineer, Physical Design Infrastructure - New College Grad 2026

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara, CA
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

NVIDIA is seeking a Software Engineer for Physical Design Infrastructure. You will 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.

Responsibilities:

- 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.

Requirements:

- 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.

Preferred qualifications:

- 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.

Benefits:

- Equity

- Benefits

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Perl
- C
- JavaScript
- Linux
- distributed systems
- web technologies

### Nice to have
- workflow orchestration
- containerization
- Elasticsearch
- Kibana
- Vega
- MSSQL
- Mysql
- SQLite
- Static Timing Analysis
- VLSI physical design

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