Security Research Engineer, AI Safety and Security Engineering

NVIDIA; North Carolina; On-site; USD 152,000 - 241,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits package

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Security Research Engineer to advance its Validate and Patch capabilities and establish what counts as a confirmed vulnerability and a truly safe fix. You will apply rigorous security judgment to defined vulnerability classes within NVIDIA's internal targets and help turn complex analysis into repeatable methods that enhance software reliability used daily.

The role emphasizes research expertise in fuzzing, program analysis, and secure development with C/C++/Python, plus

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) with 5+ years in security research or software engineering.
• Hands-on vulnerability research, fuzzing, program analysis, or secure development in C, C++, or Python.
• Rigor about what makes a fix correct and safe, including regression and behavior preservation.
• Comfort using AI-assisted tools for analysis and development.

Responsibilities

• Validation methods: Develop techniques that confirm vulnerabilities are real and reachable.
• Patch methods: Advance approaches for generating and verifying safe fixes.
• Quality standards: Define correctness, regression, and revalidation standards with reviewers.
• Applied research: Work bounded vulnerability classes against internal targets.

Skills

Security research

Fuzzing

Program analysis

Secure development

C/C++/Python

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

NVIDIA, widely recognized as one of the worlds most desirable employers, believes open-weight models are foundational to American AI leadership, cybersecurity, and defense through broad scientific scrutiny. As part of this mission, our AI Safety & Security Engineering team builds and evaluates AI-powered tooling that finds, validates, and patches software vulnerabilities, recognizing that finding a bug is only the beginning. We are seeking a Security Research Engineer to advance our Validate and Patch capabilities by establishing what counts as a confirmed vulnerability and defining what constitutes a truly correct, safe fix. In this critical role, you will apply rigorous security judgment to well-defined categories of vulnerabilities. These affect NVIDIA-internal targets. You will turn complex analysis into repeatable methods that improve software people rely on daily.

What You'll Be Doing

• Validation methods: Develop techniques that confirm vulnerabilities are real and reachable.
• Patch methods: Advance approaches for generating and verifying safe fixes.
• Quality standards: Define correctness, regression, and revalidation standards with reviewers.
• Applied research: Work bounded vulnerability classes against internal targets.

What We Need To See

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) with 5+ years in security research or software engineering.
• Security foundations: Hands-on vulnerability research, fuzzing, program analysis, or secure development in C, C++, or Python.
• Fix quality: Rigor about what makes a fix correct and safe, including regression and behavior preservation.
• AI-assisted workflows: Comfort using AI-assisted tools for analysis and development.

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd

• Public research: CVEs, advisories, or publications in vulnerability research.
• Analysis tooling: Experience building or extending fuzzers, static analyzers, or symbolic-execution tools.
• Agentic ML: Familiarity with LLM-based coding or analysis agents.

With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology industry's most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and versatile people in the world working with us, and our engineering teams are growing fast in some of the most impactful fields of our generation: Confidential Computing and Data. If you're a creative engineer who enjoys autonomy and shares our passion for technology, we want to hear from you.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 152,000 USD - 241,500 USD.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

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