Distinguished Engineer, AI Safety and Security Engineering

Society for AI Security; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 350,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits package

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to lead the AI Safety & Security Engineering team, owning the core harness architecture and production pipeline. You will guide the roadmap and ensure safety-driven design across the platform.

You will mentor founding engineers, review designs, and establish standards that endure beyond individual components, influencing the long-term safety of AI systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) with 18 years designing and building complex systems.
• Research to production: a record of turning research into production-grade engineering.
• Collaboration: ability to align engineers and researchers on one technical direction.

Responsibilities

• Architecture: Define the canonical harness architecture and component baseline.
• Engineering standards: Set the engineering standards the team builds on.
• Technical roadmap: Guide the Find, Validate, and Patch technical roadmap.
• Mentorship: Mentor founding engineers and support their growth.

Skills

Collaboration

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience)

Job description

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Distinguished Engineer, AI Safety and Security Engineering

NVIDIA is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to serve as the founding technical leader for our AI Safety & Security Engineering team. Rooted in the firm belief that open-weight models, transparency, and broad scientific scrutiny are foundational to American AI leadership and cybersecurity defense, our newly assembled team builds AI-powered tooling to discover, validate, and patch software vulnerabilities. In this foundational role, you will take full ownership of the core harness architecture and baseline engineering standards, guiding our program from early-stage prototypes into a dependable, reviewable production pipeline. Your technical roadmap will dictate how NVIDIA designs, tests, and validates its safety-critical AI systems for years to come. Recognizing that technical leadership is fundamentally collaborative, you will work side-by-side with engineering managers, security partners,

You will act as the crucial bridge between exploratory research ideas and rigorous software engineering, finding balanced paths forward where innovation meets enterprise reliability. Beyond system design, teaching and mentorship are primary components of this position rather than optional add-ons. You will actively review designs across the organization, keeping code quality and safety standards highly visible without hindering engineering velocity. Ultimately, the architectural frameworks and team culture you establish early on will outlive any single component, directly shaping both the careers of founding engineers and the future of secure AI systems.

What You'll Be Doing

• Architecture: Define the canonical harness architecture and component baseline.
• Engineering standards: Set the engineering standards the team builds on.
• Technical roadmap: Guide the Find, Validate, and Patch technical roadmap.
• Mentorship: Mentor founding engineers and support their growth.

What We Need To See

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) with 18 years designing and building complex systems.
• Research to production: A record of turning research into production-grade engineering.
• Collaboration: Ability to align engineers and researchers on one technical direction.

Ways to Stand Out from the Crowd

• Security exposure: Vulnerability research or security engineering experience.
• Agent systems: Familiarity with agent frameworks or LLM-based tooling.
• Evaluation: Experience building evaluation or benchmarking infrastructure.

We have some of the most forward-thinking and versatile people in the world working with us, and our engineering teams are growing fast in some of the most impactful fields of our generation: Confidential Computing and Data. If you're a creative engineer who enjoys autonomy and shares our passion for technology, we want to hear from you.

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

• With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology industry's most desirable employers.
• You will also be eligible for equity and benefits .