Applied Systems Engineering Rotation Engineer - New College Graduate 2026 - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$108,000 - $195,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 1 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This rotation program is for New College Graduates to join the Applied Systems Engineering team, engaging with the entire lifecycle of AI supercomputing pre-clusters at scale.
What you'll do
- 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.
What you'll need
- 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.
- Experience with software development or scripting in Linux, Bash, Python, C, C++, Java, Go, or similar technologies.
- Interest in large-scale systems, AI infrastructure, datacenter systems, hardware/software integration, or distributed computing.
Skills: AI supercomputing pre-clusters, reference architectures, end-to-end integration, large-scale GPU compute clusters, hardware/software integration
This role has been open 43 days — well below the 55-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
107
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Median days open
55 d
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Median salary
$212k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (107 roles · 28 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 15 | 107 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 993 | 6140 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 79 d | 55 d (+24 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $212k |
Skills observed across this category: AI supercomputing pre-clusters, reference architectures, end-to-end integration, large-scale GPU compute clusters, hardware/software integration
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD · 29 open roles · median 55 d
- Qualcomm · 21 open roles · median 43 d
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 16 open roles · median 74 d
- Intel Corporation · 7 open roles · median 42 d
- Mobileye · 4 open roles · median 22 d
- Apple · 3 open roles · median 14 d
How we counted: 107 open Hardware Systems Engineering (SOC Architecture) roles from 28 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.