Career Services Partner: Mentor Graphics

Joining the ranks of Career Services Partners this year is Mentor Graphics! Mentor Graphics is Wilsonville-based company, founded in 1981. The company has been recruiting on OIT's campus for years, and I personally know a few alumni who are currently happily employed with Mentor Graphics.

Here's a synopsis of what Mentor Graphics does - straight from their website:

Mentor Graphics® is a leader in electronic design automation. We enable companies to develop better electronic products faster and more cost-effectively. Our innovative products and solutions help engineers conquer design challenges in the increasingly complex worlds of board and chip design.

Basically, Mentor Graphics produces tools to assist other teams in designing Integrated Ciruits (IC) for applications such as System on Chip (SoC), and Printed Circuit Boards (PCB). Mentor Graphics is also the only Electronic Design Automation (EDA) company to offer embedded software design solutions. These services, plus the multiple other services Mentor Graphics offers all add up to make Mentor Graphics one of Oregon's largest companies, and also one of the largest Software companies in the world!


Mentor Graphics has been to nearly all of the Career Fairs that we've hosted since I started here at OIT. It's no secret that they love OIT graduates, and I think their usual recruiters would be among the first to admit that. Even if you aren't an OIT graduate, however, Mentor Graphics makes it a point to recruit recent graduates for both full-time positions and Internships or Co-Ops.

Working for Mentor Graphics means a few things. Employees can look forward to a results-oriented workplace where they are challenged to set and achieve goals, take responsibility to solve problems, and be rewarded for it all in the end! Mentor Graphics also wants you to be able to live, learn, and get involved. To help with this effort, Mentor Graphics offers a ton of benefits to its employees which include an excellent Higher Education Program, a Child Development Center, and more. Information on all of them can be found on the company website.


If Mentor Graphics sounds interesting to you, you can search through the current job opportunities at the Mentor Graphics career website!