Nvidia

Principal Engineer, Security Architecture - DGX Cloud

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Base Salary

$272k - $431k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own a core DGX Cloud security domain from design through production operation.
  • Embed with platform teams to design, code, and ship secure systems.
  • Build secure paved roads, reference architectures, guardrails, and golden paths that teams adopt by default.
  • Threat model the substrate, orchestration layer, and tenancy boundary, and use offensive analysis to improve controls and detections.
  • Partner with platform, production engineering, network security, and central security teams to implement security across development and hardware lifecycles.
  • Influence horizontally across teams without direct organizational authority.

Requirements

  • Typically 15+ years of experience across software engineering, SRE, infrastructure, and security engineering.
  • Strong software engineering background with experience writing clean, maintainable, well-tested code and operating production services at scale.
  • Experience designing, building, and operating security systems involving areas such as multi-tenant isolation, identity and access, policy enforcement, vulnerability management, or detection engineering.
  • Proven ability to threat model complex distributed systems, identify architectural gaps, and engineer durable solutions.
  • Experience with cloud-native architecture, Kubernetes, and hands-on Linux systems security, including eBPF, AppArmor, or SELinux.
  • Experience landing designs through teams without direct authority.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience, with 15+ years of relevant experience.
  • Preferred experience includes HPC or AI security, RDMA networks, large GPU fleets, workload identity frameworks such as SPIFFE or SPIRE, TPM or HSM integration, confidential computing, exploitation or red-team work, and security-focused open-source contributions.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of 272,000 USD to 431,250 USD, plus eligibility for equity and benefits.
  • Applications accepted at least until September 25, 2026.
  • The posting is for an existing vacancy.

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About Nvidia

10,000+ employees

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.

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