NVIDIA·Software Engineer

NVIDIA Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

San Jose, CAPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first real step was a one-hour interview with the hiring manager for the Robot Learning Platform team.

The time was split evenly: half was me presenting my past projects and discussing the role, and the other half shifted into coding exercises plus technical discussion.

For the coding portion, I worked with PyTorch and covered general concepts tied to robotics. What made it feel distinct was that it wasn’t only about whether I could talk through my experience; I had to engage with the technical tooling and relate it to robotic problem framing.

I didn’t end up getting an offer. Still, the structure helped me stay oriented during the call because I always knew whether we were in the

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