Automotive Offensive Security Engineer — Build Scalable Tools

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 357,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA's Automotive Offensive Security team seeks a senior engineer to break low-level systems and automate insights into reusable security capabilities. You will discover vulnerabilities in OS kernels, hypervisors, boot ROMs, firmware, and hardware, and build automation for security pipelines, fuzzers, and AI-assisted vulnerability discovery.

This role includes collaboration with security researchers and engineers, owning tool development from prototype to production, with equity and growth

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands on programming experience, particularly with C/C++. Python and memory safe language proficiency a plus.
• B.S. or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field.
• Strong low-level systems security background: OS internals, kernels, hypervisors, firmware, or hardware; analytical approach to security flaws.
• Experience with embedded software engineering. Deep understanding of foundational CS concepts and security principles.
• Experience building automated security tooling: fuzzers, sanitizers, static/dynamic analysis at source and binary level.
• Knowledge of current OS architectures and security frameworks, with focus on Linux.
• Proven understanding of x86 and ARM architectures.
• Hands-on experience developing agentic AI systems for automating security workflows.

Responsibilities

• Discover and evaluate vulnerabilities on source code and binaries, focusing on low-level systems.
• Develop and build automation to scale security work, including security pipelines and tooling.
• Collaborate with researchers and engineers to own tool development from prototype to production.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Rust

Ada/SPARK

Education

B.S. in Computer Science

Tools

Fuzzers

Sanitizers

Static analysis

Dynamic analysis

Code inspection

Job description

NVIDIA's Automotive Offensive Security team seeks a senior engineer to break low-level systems and automate insights into reusable security capabilities. You will discover vulnerabilities in OS kernels, hypervisors, boot ROMs, firmware, and hardware, and build automation for security pipelines, fuzzers, and AI-assisted vulnerability discovery.

This role includes collaboration with security researchers and engineers, owning tool development from prototype to production, with equity and growth