Lead Security Engineer, RTOS & Hypervisor (Equity)

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 357,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA DRIVE Software is hiring a Senior Security Engineer, RTOS and Virtualization, to lead security engineering across RTOS, hypervisor, and embedded virtualization technologies.

You will collaborate on CPU/SoC architecture, enforce memory safety, privilege boundaries, and hardware isolation, and drive security fixes from development through production in a fast-moving automotive environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on security experience in systems, embedded, or automotive domains.
• BSEE/BSCS degree or equivalent experience.
• Experience securing RTOS, hypervisor, kernel, firmware, or drivers.
• Strong C/C++ skills focusing on memory safety and isolation.
• Familiarity with MMU/SMMU/IOMMU, DMA, interrupts, boot and hardware isolation.
• Experience with threat modeling, vulnerability analysis, and fuzzing.

Responsibilities

• Lead security engineering for RTOS, hypervisor, and embedded virtualization.
• Collaborate on CPU/SoC architecture, including privilege levels and memory protection.
• Implement defensive features like strong partitioning and secure updates.
• Perform threat modeling and map risks to standards.
• Review C/C++ code, investigate vulnerabilities, and drive fixes into production.

Skills

C/C++

Threat modeling

Fuzzing

Memory safety

Automotive security

Education

BSEE/ BSCS degree

Job description

NVIDIA DRIVE Software is hiring a Senior Security Engineer, RTOS and Virtualization, to lead security engineering across RTOS, hypervisor, and embedded virtualization technologies.

You will collaborate on CPU/SoC architecture, enforce memory safety, privilege boundaries, and hardware isolation, and drive security fixes from development through production in a fast-moving automotive environment.