Software Quality Assurance Engineer - 2026 New College Grad

NVIDIA Gruppe; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 84,000 - 143,750; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA Gruppe is seeking a QA Engineer for their Workstation and Virtualization team in Santa Clara, California. This role focuses on ensuring quality through troubleshooting and validating NVIDIA products, as well as building innovative tools.

Prospective candidates should have relevant educational qualifications and extensive skills in virtualization technologies. The position offers a competitive salary range based on experience and location, along with benefits and equity eligibility.

Qualifications

• Proficient in virtualization technologies and scripting/automation.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot hardware and software issues.
• Solid knowledge of PC architecture and supercomputers.

Responsibilities

• Reproduce issues reported by customers and partners.
• Collaborate to determine root causes and verify defect fixes.
• Validate products on specific platforms for compatibility.

Skills

Troubleshooting and resolving complex issues

Proficient in Windows and virtualization technologies

Scripting/automation (Python, PowerShell, Bash)

Knowledge of graphics technology (DirectX, OpenGL, CUDA)

Education

Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in relevant fields

Tools

Windows performance tracing tools

Debugging tools

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a QA Engineer to join our Workstation and Virtualization team. This is an outstanding opportunity to work with innovative technology and contribute to advancements in computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing. You will collaborate closely with customers, software engineers, and program managers to reproduce issues, perform root cause analyses, and validate defect resolutions, ensuring flawless product quality.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Reproduce issues reported by OEMs, enterprise customers, and partners.
• Collaborate with software developers, program managers, and customers to determine root causes and verify defect fixes.
• Validate NVIDIA products on customer-specific platforms and configurations to ensure compatibility and reliability.
• Build Python, C#, and C++-based scripts and diagnostic tools aimed at increasing bug reproduction and troubleshooting efficiency.
• Build AI-driven tools and technologies that improve workflow efficiency.

What We Need to See:

• Pursuing Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Electronics, Software Engineering, or related fields.
• Proficient in Windows, virtualization technologies (VMware ESXi, Citrix Hypervisor, Microsoft Hyper‑V, KVM) and scripting/automation (Python, PowerShell, Bash).
• Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex hardware and software issues.
• Solid knowledge of PC architecture, supercomputers, and computer clusters, including caches, buses, memory controllers, DMA, and related components.
• Extensive experience building, configuring, and troubleshooting PCs and servers.
• Hands‑on experience with debugging tools, memory dump analysis, remote debugging and Windows performance tracing tools (e.g., ETW).
• Knowledge of graphics technology such as DirectX (DX), OpenGL (OGL), Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM), CUDA, and OpenCL.

Ways to Stand Out from the Crowd:

• Expertise in planning, installing, and optimizing virtualization environments (VMware ESXi, Citrix Hypervisor, Microsoft Hyper‑V, and KVM).
• Strong working knowledge of Linux distributions (e.g., RedHat, Ubuntu).
• Experience using Generative AI platforms / LLMs such as Gemini, Claude, Copilot, etc. to develop tools powered by artificial intelligence.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 84,000USD – 143,750USD for Level1, and 100,000USD – 166,750USD for Level2.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.