Security Engineer: Kernel & Firmware—Equity Options

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a strong, dedicated security engineer to join our GPU System Software team. You will develop mitigations, conduct security research, and build advanced security platforms to identify vulnerabilities at scale in complex systems software.

Join an inclusive team, contribute to a leading security posture, and help our GPUs power AI, data centers, and autonomous systems with robust protections and ongoing innovation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of relevant industry software engineering experience
• Experience with security analysis of complex systems
• Demonstrated strong technical background; excellent C programming and low-level driver experience
• Knowledge of operating systems and computer architecture fundamentals
• Strong 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

Operating systems

Troubleshooting

Security analysis

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Static analysis tools

Dynamic scanning tools

Fuzzing tools

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a strong, dedicated security engineer to join our GPU System Software team. You will develop mitigations, conduct security research, and build advanced security platforms to identify vulnerabilities at scale in complex systems software.

Join an inclusive team, contribute to a leading security posture, and help our GPUs power AI, data centers, and autonomous systems with robust protections and ongoing innovation.