GPU Kernel Security Engineer — Equity & Vulnerability Expert

NVIDIA; California; On-site; USD 184,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a strong, dedicated security engineer to join the GPU System Software team. You will own the security backlog for kernel and firmware, lead a cross-functional security pipeline, and drive remediation with stakeholders across software and firmware domains.

You will collaborate with engineering and security teams to define long-term security strategy, perform security reviews of designs, and evaluate cutting-edge tools and techniques to strengthen product hardening and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent.
• 5+ years of industry software engineering experience.
• Experience with security analysis of complex systems.
• Strong C programming and low-level driver experience.
• Knowledge of operating systems and computer architecture fundamentals.
• Excellent communication, troubleshooting, and debugging skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the security vulnerability backlog for kernel and firmware components, driving timely triage, remediation and SLA compliance; identify creative, scalable approaches to reduce backlog growth
• Lead a continuous security pipeline scanning, triage, root-cause analysis, remediation and validation across SW and FW components, communicate security risks to stakeholders effectively
• Communicate security risks, security posture and remediation progress through metrics, reports and stakeholder engagement
• Partner with engineering and security teams to define and execute long-term security strategy and product hardening efforts
• Drive and implement security reviews of software and hardware designs, assisting others to ensure the quality and robustness of our products
• Evaluate, recommend, and develop cutting edge security technologies, tools, and practices: static analysis for security enforcements, dynamic analysis solutions for fuzzing

Skills

C programming

Low-level driver experience

Security analysis

Operating systems knowledge

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience

Tools

Coverity

Checkmarx

Rapid7

AFL

Peach

Bullseye

LDRA

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a strong, dedicated security engineer to join the GPU System Software team. You will own the security backlog for kernel and firmware, lead a cross-functional security pipeline, and drive remediation with stakeholders across software and firmware domains.

You will collaborate with engineering and security teams to define long-term security strategy, perform security reviews of designs, and evaluate cutting-edge tools and techniques to strengthen product hardening and