Offensive Hardware Security Researcher

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive salary

Generous benefits package

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation seeks an Offensive Hardware Security Researcher to tackle diverse security challenges on advanced GPU/SoC designs.

Responsibilities include researching vulnerabilities, developing security tools, and guiding mitigations within the security architecture. Candidates should have 6+ years in security research, expertise in side-channel analysis or microarchitectural attacks, and experience with ARM/RISCV, Verilog, and C.

Qualifications

• BS/BA in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• 6+ years in security-related field with research experience.
• Experience with ARM/RISCV assembly, Verilog and low-level C.
• Understanding of large SoC/ASIC architecture and design.
• Experience with security reviews of firmware and defensive coding practices (SDL, threat modeling).
• Ability to collaborate remotely with experts to solve complex goals.
• Expertise in side-channel analysis, TEE, confidential computing or microarchitectural attacks.
• Proficiency with symbolic execution and/or fuzzing tools.
• Experience with JTAG, debugging, binary instrumentation (ChipWhisperer).
• Reverse-engineering with IDA Pro or Ghidra; ML-based side-channel research is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Research vulnerabilities on cutting-edge SoC and GPU designs.
• Develop and use security tools and techniques.
• Guide integration of mitigations into security architecture.
• Research and exploit side-channel, fault, and physical attacks.

Skills

Security research

Assembly (ARM/RISCV)

Low-level C programming

Verilog

Threat modeling

Fuzzing tools

Side-channel analysis

Reverse engineering

Machine learning for security

Collaboration

Education

BS/BA in CS/CE/EE or equivalent

Tools

ChipWhisperer

IDA Pro

Ghidra

Job description

We are now looking for an Offensive Hardware Security Researcher! NVIDIA is seeking an outstanding Offensive Hardware Security Researcher to work on a wide variety of security research challenges.

What you will be doing

• Research vulnerabilities on cutting-edge SoC and GPU designs
• Develop and use cutting-edge security tools and techniques
• Guide the continuous integration of latest mitigations into our security architecture
• Research and exploit side-channel, fault, and advanced physical attacks

What we need to see

• BS/BA degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
• 6+ years of work experience in a Security related field
• Experience with ARM/RISCV assembly, Verilog and low-level C programming
• Understanding of large SoC and ASIC architecture and design
• Experience with security code reviews of complex firmware projects and defensive coding best practices (SDL, threat modeling)
• Ability to work collaboratively and remotely with multiple experts to accomplish complex goals
• Expertise in two of more of the following fields: Expertise in side-channel analysis and mitigation for cryptographic primitives TEE (TrustZone, SE), Confidential Computing, and/or microarchitectural attacks
• Proficiency with Symbolic Execution and/or fuzzing tools
• JTAG, debugging, binary instrumentation frameworks, ChipWhisperer
• Reverse-engineering (IDA Pro, Ghidra)
• Practical experience in utilizing machine learning techniques for performing side-channel attacks
• Track record of advancing offensive security research field through vulnerability discoveries, research publications, and/or developing security tools

Ways to stand out from the crowd

• Understanding of pre-silicon hardware design and testing
• Knowledge of key hardware security architecture components, and their implementation in complex SoC designs
• Strong background in computer architecture, especially GPU or AI accelerator design

Our company

Our invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI - the next era of computing - with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world.

Today, we are increasingly known as "the AI computing company". With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world's most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us. If you're creative, autonomous and love a challenge, we want to hear from you!

The base salary range is 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4, and 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5.

Benefits and equity

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

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until June 30, 2026.

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