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Base Salary
$224k - $431k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end security story for assigned subcomponents, from threat modeling through hardening and verification.
- Design, prototype, and drive production adoption of hardware and software mitigation technologies.
- Perform offensive security research across GPU and platform firmware, microcode, kernel drivers, and embedded software.
- Identify vulnerabilities, develop proof-of-concept exploits, and partner with development teams on remediation.
- Build tools, practices, and processes that improve product robustness across NVIDIA.
- Perform threat analysis and security reviews of software and hardware designs.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
- 12+ years of relevant software engineering or security research experience.
- Demonstrated experience in an offensive security role.
- Excellent C and assembly skills with hands-on low-level driver or firmware experience.
- Experience with fuzzing, static and dynamic analysis, exploit development, and coverage-guided techniques.
- Experience with threat modeling, code audit, incident response, and secure development lifecycle practices.
- Experience applying AI and LLM-based tooling to vulnerability discovery, triage, or analysis.
- Preferred qualifications include firmware or embedded reverse engineering, especially on RISC-V or non-x86 architectures.
- Preferred qualifications include designing hardware or compiler-assisted mitigations, including LLVM or GCC modifications.
- Preferred qualifications include knowledge of caches, buses, memory controllers, DMA, MMUs, IOMMUs, SPARK, Ada, Rust, model checking, and published security research.
Benefits
- Eligible for equity and benefits.
- The role supports remote collaboration on complex, cross-team goals.
- Applications will be accepted at least until September 26, 2026.
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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.