10 days ago
Base Salary
$184k - $288k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, implement, and verify security and systems features for GPU kernel drivers, embedded software, and next-generation GPU architectures.
- Drive secure-design practices across code, development processes, product architecture, and partner engineering organizations.
- Conduct software and hardware security reviews, identify vulnerabilities and architectural risks, and guide mitigations.
- Debug and resolve issues across drivers, operating-system kernels, embedded environments, hardware interfaces, and virtualization layers.
- Balance security, reliability, and performance for datacenter-scale and performance-sensitive inference and training workloads.
- Define and execute long-term security roadmaps with global software, hardware, and product teams.
Requirements
- BS/MS in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of experience in systems software, embedded development, or security engineering.
- Experience securing low-level software such as operating-system kernels, device drivers, embedded systems, or platform software.
- Strong C programming, low-level driver development, and system-level debugging skills.
- Experience with Linux, Windows, Android, ChromeOS, or comparable operating-system kernels.
- Understanding of computer architecture, including processors, caches, buses, memory controllers, DMA, interrupts, and memory protection.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, ownership, and ability to drive complex cross-functional projects.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Preferred experience with offensive and defensive security, threat modeling, vulnerability research, reverse engineering, and exploit mitigations.
- Preferred familiarity with Confidential Computing, virtualization and isolation technologies, hypervisors, IOMMUs, virtual machines, GPU-driver architecture, embedded firmware/software, RTOS environments, RISC-V, and resource-constrained systems.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary of USD 184,000–287,500, plus equity and benefits.
- The application is expected to remain open at least until November 3, 2026.
About Nvidia
Nvidia designs and sells GPUs and accelerated computing platforms for data centers, AI/ML, graphics, gaming, and automotive, monetizing through hardware, software platforms (CUDA, AI frameworks), and systems like DGX and networking. Customers include cloud providers, enterprises, researchers, and OEMs. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Santa Clara, it is a public company traded on NASDAQ under NVDA.