Want a job at Nvidia? Israel HR chief reveals what it takes to get hired

Want a job at Nvidia? Israel HR chief reveals what it takes to get hired

By Israel Wullman
Publication Date: 2026-10-02 16:06:00

$5.5 trillion — give or take — is Nvidia’s current market value, making it the world’s largest tech company, worth more than Apple, Google or Microsoft. Its extraordinary growth is considered among the fastest in corporate history.
The giant operates research and development centers in 38 countries, but its largest is in Israel — despite the distance, the wars, the missiles and employees repeatedly being called up for reserve duty. One employee at the center, Avinatan Or, was abducted by Hamas from the Nova music festival on October 7 and released only after 738 days.
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And Nvidia is doubling down. In a few months, the first bulldozers are expected to move onto a 22-acre site in Kiryat Tivon and begin construction of Nvidia’s next campus in Israel. The futuristic complex, inspired by the company’s iconic headquarters in Santa Clara, California, is designed to accommodate 10,000 people — nearly twice Nvidia’s current workforce in Israel, which stands at 6,000, and close to a third of the company’s global workforce of more than 36,000. This year alone, Nvidia added 1,000 employees in Israel, spread across Yokneam, Tel Aviv, Ra’anana, Beersheba and Tel Hai.

The campus will include parks, a visitors center, cafes and restaurants, alongside laboratories and shared spaces for other companies. In the complex bidding process Nvidia conducted to find land for the project, dozens of local authorities in northern Israel competed…