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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, and product architecture, including adoption across partner engineering organizations.
- Conduct software and hardware security reviews, identify vulnerabilities and architectural risks, and guide mitigation strategies.
- Debug and resolve complex issues across drivers, operating-system kernels, embedded environments, hardware interfaces, and virtualization layers.
- Balance security, reliability, and performance requirements for datacenter-scale inference and training workloads.
- Define and execute long-term security roadmaps with global software, hardware, and product teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree 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, including 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.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills for explaining complex security and systems topics.
- Preferred experience with threat modeling, vulnerability research, reverse engineering, exploit mitigations, confidential computing, virtualization, hypervisors, IOMMUs, virtual machines, GPU-driver architecture, embedded firmware/software, RTOS environments, RISC-V, or resource-constrained systems.
Benefits
- Base salary range of 184,000 USD to 287,500 USD, with additional eligibility for equity and benefits.
- Competitive salaries and a generous benefits package.
- Applications accepted at least until September 26, 2026; the posting is for an existing vacancy.
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.