NVIDIA Wants Almost 500 New Staff, Passed 7,000 Mark

NVIDIA is defying the layoff trends imposed by the economic recession and hiring some people instead, not in too small a number either.

Some might not have thought to ask about it if there hadn't been so many management and personnel changes on the IT front lately.

Still, VR-Zone snooped around a bit and learned that quite a few job positions are open and we can attest to that as well.

Then again, whether or not this is true can easily be ascertained by visiting the list on Linkedin.

At the time of this article's writing, there are 471 job listings, which means that the Santa Clara, California-based company wants to go well beyond the 7,000 mark.

The GPU and mobile SoC maker surpassed the 7,000-employee threshold for the first time, but it doesn't plan to stop until it is sure its workforce is up to the tasks it is resolved to tackle.

The jobs range from high to low profile and are located in Santa Clara (California), Theale (UK), Shenzen (China), Moscow (Russia), Berlin (Germany), Taipei (Taiwan) and many other locations.

Anyone with the inclination might have to hurry a bit, though, since between VR-Zone's posting and our visit to that page, the number of positions had gone from 475 to 471.

It could have been because of erroneous double job postings that were since corrected (not that Linkedin is known for such things, or NVIDIA itself for that matter), but there is no point in postponing an application either way.

NVIDIA is hiring evenly across 20 countries and even has positions open for Exascale program Director, Tesla GPU Computing General Manager, GPU infrastructure Architect, Field Application Engineer, etc.

All in all, AMD is not the only company rehashing its personnel in the hopes of improving its product quality, time to market and overall productivity.

Its own open job offers are much fewer though (78), but with the recent cut in workforce, this is not surprising.