The 2027 new grad application timeline

New grad hiring is a calendar, not a job board. For the 2027 cycle, Jane Street opened first (July 6), Palantir never closes, Stripe posted on August 31, OpenAI on September 14, Amazon’s 2027 reqs on September 24 and October 1, and NVIDIA posts software reqs with windows as short as four days. Google’s BS/MS campus req came and went within weeks, and Databricks and Meta had not posted at all by October 10. Every program below lists its posting date and whether it is rolling or deadline-driven.

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New-grad engineers design and build the systems and tools that run the firm, from trading desks to accounting to foundational infrastructure such as network monitoring and risk models. OCaml is the primary language, with Python increasingly used. Jane Street says it teaches what hires need to know and cares more about how you think and learn than prior knowledge.

Base salary

$300k

Locations

NYC

Work setup

In office (NYC)

Eligibility

No degree, GPA, years-of-experience, OCaml or finance requirement stated; tagged Full-Time: New Grad. Graduation window not published.

Applications

NYC req posted July 6, 2026; rolling, no deadline — Jane Street says apply when you can interview within a few weeks

Worth knowing: Jane Street’s NYC new-grad SWE posting lists a flat $300,000 base (no range) plus discretionary bonus — the highest posted new-grad base on this list — and expects no OCaml, functional programming or finance background.

New-grad SWE req open in New York under ‘Students and new grads’, with parallel new-grad SWE reqs in London, Hong Kong and Singapore; 24 ‘Full-Time: New Grad’ reqs across disciplines

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Salary band, hiring status & score breakdown — see the full Jane Street New Grad page →Jane Street interview guide →

New grads join as L1 engineers on product and infrastructure teams working mostly in Java, Ruby, JavaScript, Scala and Go, and the 2027 req explicitly expects you to use AI tools while validating their output. Every new hire gets a manager accountable for their development, a mentor, and an annual education stipend.

Base salary

$122k–$134k

Locations

NYC · Seattle · South SF HQ

Work setup

Hybrid — at least 50% of each month in office or with users

Eligibility

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS or related obtained by summer 2027, or equivalent; no more than 18 months of professional experience (excluding internships).

Applications

US req posted August 31, 2026; rolling, no deadline — Stripe recommends applying as early as possible

Worth knowing: Stripe’s posted US new-grad base ($122,100–$134,400) is unchanged from the 2026 cycle, yet levels.fyi L1 averages ~$225K total comp — equity and bonus, not base, carry the offer.

Open: one multi-location US req ‘Software Engineer, New Grad’ (New York · Seattle · South San Francisco HQ) is live, alongside six international new-grad SWE reqs.

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Salary band, hiring status & score breakdown — see the full Stripe New Grad page →Stripe interview guide →

Dev-track new grads (‘one capability, many customers’, versus Forward Deployed’s ‘one customer, many capabilities’) contribute directly to Gotham, Foundry or Apollo on small Product Development teams, involved from prototype through shipping, paired with a mentor. Team placement matches interview strengths to current business needs; there is no traditional career ladder.

Base salary

$145k–$155k

Locations

NYC · DC · Palo Alto · Seattle · Denver

Work setup

Hybrid — office-first, many teams allow a day or two at home

Eligibility

Graduating Fall 2026 or Spring 2027, or under six months of industry experience; eligibility for a US security clearance on US reqs.

Applications

Evergreen — the reqs stay open year-round; eligibility rolled over to the 2027 cohort in July 2026

Worth knowing: Palantir’s new-grad reqs are evergreen — the New York posting was created in July 2021 and is still accepting applications — and every US variant posts the identical $145,000–$155,000 base.

10 US Dev-track new-grad SWE reqs open on Lever: New York (4), Washington DC (2), Palo Alto (2), Seattle, Denver; plus London and Singapore.

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Salary band, hiring status & score breakdown — see the full Palantir New Grad page →

New grads join a hub office (SF, Mountain View or Bellevue) at L3 with a manager, a dedicated mentor and an onboarding buddy for the first six months, hired across backend, full stack and infrastructure teams. Applicants pick a single location.

Locations

SF · Mountain View · Bellevue

Work setup

In office (hub offices)

Eligibility

Prior cycle: graduating fall 2025 or spring 2026 with a CS/Engineering degree — expect the fall 2026 / spring 2027 equivalent.

Applications

Not posted as of October 10, 2026 — last cycle’s req opened August 8 and closed November 12

Worth knowing: The laggard of this cycle: as of Oct 9, 2026 Databricks has posted 2027 SWE interns and APM/PM new grads but no 2027 new-grad SWE req, even though last cycle’s req opened Aug 8, 2025.

No 2027-start new-grad SWE req on the Greenhouse board as of Oct 9, 2026; University Recruiting lists SWE Intern (2027 Start) in Bellevue/Mountain View/SF (posted Aug 20, 2026) and APM/PM new grad reqs.

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New grads join as SDE I, owning the full lifecycle of their code from design through deployment and on-call, with GenAI dev tools part of the stated job. Placement depends on the req: team-specific reqs (Annapurna compilers and runtimes, Robotics, ADC, Leo) fix the org up front, while the flagship req lets you flag skill areas such as ML, distributed systems and databases and places you by business need.

Base salary

$122k–$148k

Locations

Seattle · Bay Area · NYC · 40+ US cities

Work setup

In office 5 days a week (corporate policy since Jan 2025); reqs are tagged on-site

Eligibility

Flagship req: holds or is completing a bachelor’s in CS/CE/Data Science/IS or a related STEM field, 18+. The Annapurna 2027 req asks for a final graduation date of May 2027 or later. Some team reqs add US citizenship, clearance, or export-control requirements.

Applications

2027 Early Career reqs posted September 24 and October 1, 2026, and the evergreen SDE req has been open since February; rolling

Worth knowing: AWS CEO Matt Garman said in April 2026 that Amazon is ‘hiring just as many software developers as we ever had’ — after corporate layoffs of about 14,000 (Oct 2025) and about 16,000 (Jan 2026).

2027-labeled Early Career SDE I reqs are live (Annapurna Labs posted Sep 24, Robotics Oct 1, 2026), plus the evergreen ‘SDE – 2026 (US)’ req covering 46 US cities, still being refreshed in October; no 2027-labeled flagship req yet

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Salary band, hiring status & score breakdown — see the full Amazon New Grad page →Amazon interview guide →

New grads join as L3 software engineers on a specific project, with opportunities to switch teams and projects as the business evolves. The PhD 2027-start reqs are pooled across AI and Infrastructure, Cloud, YouTube, Search and Ads rather than tied to one team, and candidates report team and location alignment late in the process. The 2026 BS/MS req added ‘experience using AI productivity tools’ to its minimum qualifications.

Base salary

$123k–$174k

Locations

Mountain View · NYC · Seattle · 12 US sites

Work setup

Hybrid; applicants pick preferred working locations at application time, and the PhD reqs say interviews are in person in most instances

Eligibility

PhD reqs: PhD in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent practical experience), coding in C/C++/Python/Java/Go, and availability to start full-time in 2027. The BS/MS campus req, now closed, asked for a bachelor’s in CS or similar (master’s preferred), data structures and algorithms, and experience using AI productivity tools; no graduation window was stated.

Applications

PhD 2027-start reqs posted August 24, 2026 and rolling; the BS/MS campus req posted in August is already gone

Worth knowing: As of October 10, 2026, Google’s BS/MS ‘Software Engineer, Early Career, Campus’ req (posted in August) is no longer on its careers board — the only live 2027-start early-career SWE reqs are PhD tracks, first posted August 24 and refreshed October 9.

PhD-only right now: two 2027-start PhD reqs (Infrastructure, AI/ML) plus a Systems Research PhD req are live across 12 US sites, while the BS/MS ‘Software Engineer, Early Career, Campus’ req is gone from the careers board as of October 10, 2026

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Salary band, hiring status & score breakdown — see the full Google New Grad page →Google interview guide →

New grads on the Applied Engineering team own customer-facing ChatGPT and OpenAI API features end to end: they talk to users, design solutions, and work with researchers, PMs and designers on speed and scale. The req names a defined stack (JavaScript/React, Python backend, Postgres); team matching happens after the offer. No formal training curriculum is described.

Base salary

$180k

Locations

Work setup

Hybrid — OpenAI’s SF postings run 3 days a week in office, with relocation assistance

Eligibility

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS or a related field (or equivalent experience); 0–1 years of software engineering experience; JavaScript/React, some Python and Postgres/MySQL; interest in AI/ML. No graduation-date window stated.

Applications

Single SF req posted September 14, 2026; rolling, and liable to close without notice — last cycle’s was gone by September 30

Worth knowing: OpenAI’s board holds exactly one 2027 new-grad-track SWE req out of 815 listings — SF-only, with a flat $180K posted base (not a range) plus equity.

One open 2027 new-grad-track SWE req (Applied Engineering, San Francisco only) out of 815 listings on OpenAI’s Ashby board; no other new-grad SWE reqs

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Salary band, hiring status & score breakdown — see the full OpenAI New Grad page →OpenAI interview guide →

Software new grads join a specific team — for example the chip-design infrastructure team building CI/CD, build, regression and release tooling for NVIDIA’s chip designers, or AI and cloud systems software. The one structured program found is the Applied Systems Engineering Rotation: four 3-month rotations (architecture, bring-up, production) over 12 months. Most NCG reqs are hardware, so software seats are scarce and windows are short.

Base salary

$108k–$196k

Locations

Santa Clara · Austin · 5 more sites

Work setup

On-site per the req work-location field; some reqs carry a hybrid tag, so the in-office expectation varies by team

Eligibility

Bachelor’s or higher in CS or Computer Engineering (or equivalent experience) for the software reqs; the hardware-tools and physical-design software reqs require an MS or PhD. No graduation-date window is posted. NVIDIA Ignite is not a new-grad program — it is a summer pre-internship for first- and second-year undergrads.

Applications

Per-req windows as short as four days — the C++ Infrastructure Tools 2027 req (posted October 9) closes October 13; software reqs keep appearing through spring 2027

Worth knowing: NVIDIA’s FY2026 10-K says over 40% of new hires came from employee referrals, and its careers site calls internships the primary pipeline for new college grads — the open-application route is narrow.

At least 43 US ‘New College Grad’ reqs live Oct 10, 2026 (38 labeled 2026, 5 labeled 2027), but only about five are software-titled — the rest are mostly ASIC, hardware and research

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Salary band, hiring status & score breakdown — see the full NVIDIA New Grad page →NVIDIA interview guide →

New grads are hired as Software Engineer IC2 (levels 59–60) into a specific team; the October 2026 reqs include Engineering Thrive Insights (developer-productivity data and AI tooling) and Azure Specialized, and expect engineers to use AI coding assistants daily. After the hire they are auto-enrolled in Aspire for mentoring, events and learning in the first year-plus.

Base salary

$85k–$168k

Locations

Redmond · Mountain View · remote-eligible reqs

Work setup

Hybrid, 3 days a week in office on the Redmond req; some reqs (e.g. Azure Specialized) are US-remote

Eligibility

Bachelor’s in Computer Science or a related technical discipline with proven coding experience (C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript or Python), or equivalent experience; master’s preferred. No years of experience required for IC2 and no graduation window stated.

Applications

Rolling IC2 reqs, open at least five days each; third-party guides put the main new grad season at August–October with a smaller January–March round

Worth knowing: Microsoft has no dedicated 2027 new grad SWE req — entry-level engineers apply to standard ‘Software Engineer’ IC2 reqs, and Microsoft’s recent-graduate page says Aspire enrollment is automatic for qualifying hires.

Two entry-level ‘Software Engineer’ (IC2) reqs posted October 9, 2026 (Redmond; US-remote) among 364 US software-engineering reqs; no req labeled 2027 or new grad

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Salary band, hiring status & score breakdown — see the full Microsoft New Grad page →Microsoft interview guide →

The University Grad track hires people finishing a bachelor’s degree into engineering roles. The one live US req, Network Production Engineer, builds experience across Backbone, Data Center and Network Infrastructure teams through first-year rotations. Interviews now put an AI assistant inside CoderPad, so candidates are judged on reading, debugging and building on code with AI help.

Locations

Menlo Park · SWE UG reqs not yet posted

Work setup

Not stated on the live University Grad req (Menlo Park hub); Meta’s days-in-office policy was not re-verified

Eligibility

Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a relevant technical field (or equivalent practical experience); the degree must be completed before joining, and work authorization is required at time of hire. No graduation-date window stated.

Applications

No SWE University Grad req posted as of October 10, 2026; the live University Grad reqs (network, research) opened September 12

Worth knowing: Across Meta’s 1,144 open reqs (crawled October 9–10, 2026), none is a Software Engineer (University Grad) role — while Meta’s official hiring page says its coding interviews now include a built-in AI assistant (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Meta’s own models) that candidates are expected to use.

No ‘Software Engineer (University Grad)’ req is live as of October 10, 2026 — across 1,144 open reqs, only three University Grad reqs are open company-wide: Network Production Engineer (Menlo Park; Dublin/London) and Research Engineer, AI (Montreal)

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Salary band, hiring status & score breakdown — see the full Meta New Grad page →Meta interview guide →

New grads land on one specific team as ICT2 engineers — for example IS&T AI/data-platform reliability, enterprise frontend, or wireless telephony software — with the team set during that team’s own loop rather than via a rotation. IS&T Early Career hires get an Early Career community with educational and social events, per the req text.

Base salary

$129k–$195k

Locations

Cupertino · Sunnyvale · Seattle · Austin

Work setup

Hybrid, about 3 days in office (policy as reported in 2022; not re-verified for 2026)

Eligibility

No graduation window posted. IS&T Early Career SWE reqs ask for a bachelor’s in CS/CE or equivalent plus coding in Python, Java, Go or web/iOS, with a relevant internship preferred; other ICT2 reqs vary by team, some requiring an MS.

Applications

Rolling and team by team; IS&T Early Career reqs posted August 10 and 12, 2026, and ICT2 team reqs appear weekly

Worth knowing: Apple’s students page says it hires graduates ‘regardless of the degree’ but runs no central new-grad SWE program — each team runs its own pipeline, and only IS&T tags its entry roles ‘Early Career’ with an Early Career employee community.

No dedicated new-grad program or 2027-labeled req. Two IS&T Early Career software reqs (Austin; posted Aug 10 and 12, 2026) and a steady flow of ICT2 software reqs in Cupertino, Sunnyvale and Santa Clara (posted Oct 5–9) are live

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Salary band, hiring status & score breakdown — see the full Apple New Grad page →Apple interview guide →

Common questions

The week a req opens. Every program on this list hires on a rolling basis, Stripe and Jane Street say so explicitly, and third-party guides report that programs like Microsoft fill most seats by November. For the 2027 cycle that meant July (Jane Street), late August (Stripe, Google’s PhD reqs), September (OpenAI, Amazon) and October (NVIDIA’s latest software reqs).

Rolling, almost without exception. Only NVIDIA states per-req closing dates (‘accepted at least until’ a date, sometimes just four days out); Stripe, Jane Street, Palantir, OpenAI, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Apple post no deadline and close reqs when they fill — Google’s BS/MS campus req disappeared within weeks of posting.

As of October 10, 2026: Google’s BS/MS ‘Software Engineer, Early Career, Campus’ req (posted in August) is gone, leaving only PhD tracks; NVIDIA’s earlier software reqs closed on June 7, July 26 and September 5; and Stripe’s 2026-cycle req closed when the 2027 req replaced it. OpenAI’s single req is live but last cycle’s was gone by September 30.

Sometimes. NVIDIA keeps posting software new-college-grad reqs through spring 2027, Palantir and Amazon run evergreen reqs, and third-party guides describe a smaller January–March round at Microsoft for leftover headcount. The flagship programs (Stripe, Jane Street, Databricks) are effectively one-window hires.

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