Director of AI Safety & Security Engineering

NVIDIA Corporation; California; On-site; USD 272,000 - 431,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a Senior Manager to form and lead the AI Safety & Security Engineering team in California. You will hire across harness and platform engineering, security research, and evaluation, driving the Find, Validate, and Patch roadmap with transparent progress updates.

The role requires 12+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years in leadership, with a track record of building complex systems and guiding a young program to steady delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 12+ years in software engineering and 5+ years of engineering team management.
• Experience guiding teams that build complex systems such as distributed infrastructure, ML platforms, or security tooling.
• Ability to balance architecture and evaluation trade-offs in ML or systems software.
• Comfort operating in a young program and defining scope with limited oversight.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the founding engineering team.
• Deliver the Find, Validate, and Patch roadmap.
• Collaborate with evaluation, security, and platform leadership.
• Communicate engineering status clearly across NVIDIA.

Skills

Leadership experience

Technical depth

Ambiguity tolerance

Team building

Education

Bachelor's degree in software engineering or equivalent

Tools

ML platforms

Security tooling

Distributed infrastructure

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a Senior Manager to form and lead the AI Safety & Security Engineering team in California. You will hire across harness and platform engineering, security research, and evaluation, driving the Find, Validate, and Patch roadmap with transparent progress updates.

The role requires 12+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years in leadership, with a track record of building complex systems and guiding a young program to steady delivery.