NVIDIA 2027 Internships: Hardware Engineering - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$20 - $71 USD yearly
Originally posted 19 August 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This internship involves hardware engineering roles focused on system validation, hardware design, mechanical engineering, and silicon solutions for datacenter server products and other solutions.
What you'll do
- Validate and debug new features and changes in datacenter server products
- Perform hardware testing, debugging, and validation of new products
- Research and develop new concepts and materials for products
- Productize NVIDIA's chips into various consumer, professional, server, mobile, and automotive solutions
What you'll need
- Actively enrolled in a university pursuing a B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
- Prior experience or knowledge in Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL, Perl, Python, TCL, MATLAB
- Prior experience or knowledge in Board-Level Design, PCB, Datacenter Systems, Linux
- Prior experience or knowledge in CAD Software (i.e. Solidworks, ProE, Creo, Catia, Unigraphics), MOSFETs
- Prior experience or knowledge in Lab Tools (Oscilloscope, Multimeter, Logic Analyzer)
Skills: system validation, datacenter server products, hardware testing, debugging, silicon solutions
This role has been open 58 days — slightly above the 56-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
103
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Median days open
56 d
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Median salary
$210k
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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 (103 roles · 28 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 16 | 103 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 991 | 6157 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 75 d | 56 d (+19 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $210k |
Skills observed across this category: system validation, datacenter server products, hardware testing, debugging, silicon solutions
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD · 28 open roles · median 56 d
- Qualcomm · 22 open roles · median 41 d
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 15 open roles · median 80 d
- Intel Corporation · 6 open roles · median 43 d
- Mobileye · 4 open roles · median 23 d
- Apple · 3 open roles · median 15 d
How we counted: 103 open Hardware Systems Engineering (SOC Architecture) roles from 28 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 16 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.