Cyber Security Engineer

NVIDIA Corporation; California; Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Cybersecurity Analyst to lead incident response, threat hunting, and forensics across corporate, cloud, and product environments. You will drive investigations, automate responses, and strengthen our security posture with cross-functional teams.

The role demands 8+ years in IR and cloud experience, with strong cloud security and IAM expertise. Equity and benefits offered; base salary described in post.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years hands-on incident response and threat hunting, incl. cloud.
• Strong cloud security, IAM, and workload protection knowledge.
• Experience with product security investigations and secure coding.
• Proficiency in forensic analysis, intrusion detection, and threat intel.
• Deep knowledge of networks, OS internals, and web app security.
• Ability to work independently and across global teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead incident response for corporate, cloud, and product environments.
• Perform threat hunting across endpoints, networks, and cloud workloads.
• Conduct cloud IR for AWS, Azure, GCP; analyze logs and identities.
• Drive product security IR with engineering teams to analyze exposure.
• Perform digital forensics and malware analysis for investigations.
• Develop and optimize security automation playbooks with Security Eng.
• Refine detections and defense using MITRE ATT&CK mappings.
• Advise on secure design, incident handling standards, and policies.

Skills

Incident response

Threat hunting

Digital forensics

Malware analysis

Security automation

Network analysis

OS internals

Web application security

Python

Go

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS GuardDuty

Azure Sentinel

GCP Security Command Center

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Cybersecurity Analyst with deep expertise in incident response, forensics investigation, threat hunting, and proactive cyber defense. This role is ideal for a cybersecurity professional passionate about defending enterprise and product environments against advanced threats, and eager to tackle complex investigations across diverse platforms.

As part of our Cyber Defense & Response team, you will lead efforts to detect, analyze, and respond to sophisticated attacks targeting NVIDIA's corporate, cloud, and product ecosystems. You will leverage your technical skills to drive investigations, orchestrate automated responses, and strengthen our security posture across infrastructure and products.

This is an opportunity to make a significant impact in the industry, collaborating with elite experts in security, data science, and AI to shape the future of product security technologies.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead Incident Response efforts for corporate, cloud, and product environments, including investigation, containment, eradication, and recovery.
• Perform threat hunting across endpoints, networks, and cloud workloads to proactively identify indicators of compromise, emerging threats, and control gaps.
• Conduct cloud incident response for AWS, Azure, and GCP, and other cloud environments including Kubernetes and containerized workloads, performing log analysis, identity compromise investigations, and workload forensics.
• Drive product security incident response, collaborating with engineering teams to analyze potential exposure to vulnerabilities, exploits, and security flaws in NVIDIA products.
• Perform digital forensics and malware analysis to support investigations and root cause analysis.
• Develop and optimize security orchestration and automation playbooks in partnership with Security Engineering to accelerate detection and response.
• Build and refine detections and defense strategies based on threat models and attacker behaviors across cloud, identity, endpoint, and product telemetry, using frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK to map adversary tactics and enhance detection coverage.
• Provide guidance to engineering and business teams on secure design and incident handling standards and contribute to security policies, standards, and metrics to continuously improve NVIDIA’s security posture.

What we need to see:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of hands‑on experience in incident response and threat hunting, including cloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security principles, identity and access management, and workload protection.
• Experience with product security investigations, vulnerability analysis, and secure coding practices.
• Proficiency in forensic analysis, intrusion detection, and threat intelligence.
• Advanced knowledge of network analysis, OS internals (Windows/Linux/macOS), and web application security, including the ability to detect abnormal behaviors and assess exploit paths.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively across global teams.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Certifications such as GCIH, GCFA, AWS/Azure Security Specialty, CISSP.
• Experience with cloud‑native security tools (e.g., AWS GuardDuty, Azure Sentinel, GCP Security Command Center).
• Development experience in Python, Go, or similar for building security automation.
• Hands‑on experience with container security (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD pipeline , and AI security.
• Advanced knowledge of digital forensics and malware reverse engineering.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 168,000 USD - 270,250 USD.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until October 31, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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