Firmware Security Architect, Networking (Equity Eligible)

NVIDIA Corporation; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation seeks an outstanding technical security architect to enhance the security posture of NVIDIA Networking firmware. You will collaborate with firmware, hardware, and architecture teams to reduce risk, define security features, and drive secure development across millions of devices globally.

Role emphasizes trust boundaries, secure boot, attestation, and lifecycle security, with hands-on work in embedded codebases.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in product or firmware security with hands-on embedded work.
• Experience defining security policy models (RBAC, admin separation) in production.
• Familiarity with cryptography: secure boot, code signing, attestation.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a dynamic environment.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Involved in security architecture of NVIDIA Networking firmware — trust boundaries, privilege separation, device identity and key storage, secure boot and chain of trust, and secure update/anti-rollback flows.
• Perform security threat modeling of firmware and embedded subsystems across NVIDIA Networking products.
• Analyze complex firmware/hardware interactions to identify security weaknesses in boot flows and privileged execution environments.
• Define security features across the device lifecycle: provisioning, attestation, debug authorization, runtime hardening, field updates.
• Guide engineering teams through implementation.
• Translate threat models into actionable requirements and review designs against them.
• Collaborate with hardware and ASIC architects to specify security primitives and usage across product lines.
• Promote secure development practices for firmware: memory-safe C, static analysis, fuzzing of interfaces.

Skills

Security architecture

Threat modeling

Firmware security

Embedded systems

Policy modeling

Cryptography

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or EE

Tools

PCIe interfaces

MMIO

DMA

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation seeks an outstanding technical security architect to enhance the security posture of NVIDIA Networking firmware. You will collaborate with firmware, hardware, and architecture teams to reduce risk, define security features, and drive secure development across millions of devices globally.

Role emphasizes trust boundaries, secure boot, attestation, and lifecycle security, with hands-on work in embedded codebases.