By submitting your resume, you’re expressing interest in one of our 2025 Ignite Hardware Engineering Internships. We’ll review resumes on an ongoing basis, and a recruiter may reach out if your experience fits one of our many internship opportunities.

The NVIDIA Ignite Application will be open from 9/16/2024 - 10/18/2024

The NVIDIA Ignite program was created to give you real-world experiences with real technology. You’ll get hands-on exposure to never-before-seen solutions. Why you? We believe that technology should be inclusive of everyone. NVIDIA Ignite takes this dedication to the next level by immersing students of historically underrepresented communities in an on-site (Santa Clara, CA) headquarters based 12-week internship through NVIDIA’s products, culture, and ecosystem. 

If you’ve just started your 1st or 2nd year as an undergraduate and love hardware, this pre-internship program is the perfect way to kickstart your career. 

Why NVIDIA? We’re all about redefining the future. You can see it in our AI and visual computing technologies, from the data center and self-driving cars to gaming and robots. And you can see it in our employees—driven, curious, smart people with a passion for creating what comes next. Don’t miss this chance to Ignite your career and help us change the world. Apply now to begin your life’s work!

Our 12-week internship is located on-site in Santa Clara, CA. (NVIDIA will cover one-time round trip for students traveling over 50 miles to Santa Clara and provide a supplemental housing stipend to assist with living expenses over the summer)   

Potential Internships in this field include: 

• AI Developer Technology

• ASIC Physical Design and Timing

• GPU Verification and Design

• Hardware ASIC

• Hardware CPU Infrastructure

• HWInf Content/Performance

• Power Architect

What we need to see: 

• You are currently a first-year (class of 2028) or second year (class of 2027) undergrad pursuing your bachelor’s degree at a four-year university in the United States in either of the following:

• CS, CE, EE, Mathematics, or related fields

• Creativity and problem-solving mentality; willingness to develop new skills; ability to adapt to new experiences

• The desire to learn new concepts and tools in a growing and evolving workspace

• Passion for diverse work assignments and enjoy the opportunity to try innovative approaches to overcome challenges

• Ability to develop relationships across a wide array of partners and build support for our core mission

• Extra-curricular interest in technical fields is a plus!

Ways to stand out from the crowd, Hardware applicants:

• Enrolled in courses in computing and engineering, specifically geared towards HW basics

• Basic knowledge of one of the following programming languages C, C++, Python, Perl

• Demonstrated initiative to learn about technology, computers, artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, robotics, parallel computing, etc.

• Fundamental knowledge of MATLAB

• Basic knowledge of one of the following CAD Skills: Catia, SiemensNX, Solidworks Creo

• Understanding of VLSI design, computer architecture, computer arithmetic CMOS transistors, and circuits

• Basic knowledge of Verilog/VHDL

• Background of modern GPU API’s (CUDA, OpenCL)

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