Principal Cyber Security Engineer, Agentic Identity & Equity

Society for AI Security; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Principal Cyber Security Engineer to define and build agentic identity capabilities enabling trusted AI agents across the internal ecosystem. This hands-on role requires rapid prototyping, architecture leadership, and close collaboration with security, product, and platform teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions.

You will drive identity and security controls for non-human workflows, work across CSPs, and evaluate new standards and tools to implement robust agentic

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or Master's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field.
• 15 years in software/security engineering or related areas with hands-on leadership.
• Ability to prototype quickly and evolve ideas into production systems.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build agent identity security features for cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments.
• Prototype, validate, and iterate on credential brokering, token exchange, delegation, and lifecycle management.
• Identify MVPs for ambiguous security problems and drive toward production-ready services.
• Build reusable tooling, APIs, and integration patterns for enterprise tools.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Security, Product Security, and platform teams to align architecture with workflow needs.
• Evaluate emerging standards and open-source tech for pragmatic internal implementations.

Skills

Security engineering

Identity systems

Distributed systems

Platform engineering

Threat modeling

Agentic/AI-adjacent systems

Collaboration across teams

Container technologies

Cloud environments

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Docker

containerd

OAuth/OIDC

SPIFFE

mTLS

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Principal Cyber Security Engineer to define and build agentic identity capabilities enabling trusted AI agents across the internal ecosystem. This hands-on role requires rapid prototyping, architecture leadership, and close collaboration with security, product, and platform teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions.

You will drive identity and security controls for non-human workflows, work across CSPs, and evaluate new standards and tools to implement robust agentic