Founder-Stage AI Safety & Security Engineering Lead

NVIDIA; United States; Remote; USD 272,000 - 431,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits package

Job summary

NVIDIA seeks a Senior Manager to build and lead the AI Safety & Security Engineering team, guiding the Find, Validate, and Patch initiatives and scaling across engineering, security, and platform groups. You will drive architecture decisions, set a sustainable cadence, and report progress clearly.

The role requires 12+ years in software engineering with 5+ years leading teams, a Bachelor's degree, and a track record in distributed systems or ML infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) with 12+ years in software engineering.
• 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams.
• Experience guiding teams that build complex systems - distributed infrastructure, ML platforms, or security tooling.
• Ability to weigh architecture and evaluation trade-offs in ML or systems software.
• Steadiness in a young program, where much is still yours to define.

Responsibilities

• Hire, coach, and grow the founding engineering team.
• Lead the Find, Validate, and Patch engineering roadmap.
• Collaborate with evaluation, security, and platform leadership.
• Share clear, honest engineering status across NVIDIA.

Skills

Team leadership

Architecture trade-offs

Ambiguity tolerance

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

NVIDIA seeks a Senior Manager to build and lead the AI Safety & Security Engineering team, guiding the Find, Validate, and Patch initiatives and scaling across engineering, security, and platform groups. You will drive architecture decisions, set a sustainable cadence, and report progress clearly.

The role requires 12+ years in software engineering with 5+ years leading teams, a Bachelor's degree, and a track record in distributed systems or ML infrastructure.