Went through the NVIDIA new grad SWE process this recruiting cycle and am posting what I found because there's almost nothing on this specific to 2026.
Recruiter confirmed the general range during the offer call. My offer: Base: $160,000 Signing bonus: $15,000 (one-time, paid in first paycheck apparently) RSUs: $150,000 over 4 years, first cliff at 1 year Bonus target: 10-15% of base
Year-1 total on paper: roughly $225k - $240k.
For context I'm CS, top-30 school, no prior NVIDIA internship. Had an internship at a mid-size tech company.
The interview process for new grad: OA: two leetcode-style problems, medium difficulty, 90 minutes Phone screen with an engineer: one coding problem (medium), some questions about past projects Virtual onsite: 3 rounds. Two coding (medium-hard), one that was half-coding half-system design (they gave me a GPU memory management scenario and asked me to walk through design choices)
The GPU-specific round was the one I was most nervous about. I had no GPU background. What I did: spent about 3 hours reading about GPU memory hierarchy, why memory bandwidth matters, basic CUDA execution model. Enough to not blank when they asked "what would you think about when designing a memory allocator that needs to handle high-throughput GPU workloads?"
I didn't nail it. But I showed I could think through it and they seemed fine with that.
Total timeline: OA to offer was about 5.5 weeks.