Rotational Systems Engineer: AI Infrastructure (Grad 2026)

Nvidia Corporation in; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 108,000 - 196,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA invites a new college graduate to join the Applied Systems Engineering Rotation Engineer program for 2026, contributing to system-level designs for large-scale accelerated computing environments and collaborating across cross-functional teams. You will evaluate, prototype, and validate infrastructure and accelerator technologies; support end-to-end integration, bring-up, and production-readiness; and define requirements and tradeoffs.

Applications are due by September 5, 2026.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical field or equivalent experience.
• Experience with software development or scripting in Linux, Bash, Python, C/C++, Java, Go, or similar.
• Ability to analyze technical data, summarize findings, and communicate conclusions clearly.
• Interest in large-scale systems, AI infrastructure, datacenter systems, hardware/software integration, or distributed computing.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills across engineering teams.

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.
• Analyze workload, telemetry, performance, reliability, and operational data to identify issues and improvement opportunities.
• 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.

Skills

Linux

Bash

Python

C/C++

Java

Go

Analytical thinking

Communication

Distributed systems

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or Master's degree in a related technical field

Tools

Linux systems

Containers

Kubernetes

Slurm

Networking

Storage

Job description

NVIDIA invites a new college graduate to join the Applied Systems Engineering Rotation Engineer program for 2026, contributing to system-level designs for large-scale accelerated computing environments and collaborating across cross-functional teams. You will evaluate, prototype, and validate infrastructure and accelerator technologies; support end-to-end integration, bring-up, and production-readiness; and define requirements and tradeoffs.

Applications are due by September 5, 2026.