Senior AI Security Architect — Patterns & Platforms

VulnU; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 270,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Senior Security Engineer focused on Architecture Patterns to embed security into AI pipelines and tooling. You will drive shift-left security, create machine-enforceable standards, and build evaluation harnesses for non-deterministic AI systems.

You will collaborate across teams to evolve enterprise-grade security patterns, scale them with versioning, observability, and access controls, and ensure robust threat modeling and audit capabilities across

Qualifications

• 8 years in security engineering or related field.
• Experience with AI coding agents and tooling.
• Proven track record delivering production-ready secure systems.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native security and DevSecOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop shift-left secure coding standards for AI-generated code.
• Convert standards into machine-enforceable formats for pipelines.
• Engineer verification workflows with evidence for release gating.
• Maintain evaluation harnesses, reference repos, and known-bad cases.
• Render secure reference implementations (templates, Helm charts, images).
• Collaborate across teams to raise security standards and adoption.

Skills

Shift-left security

CI/CD pipelines

Static analysis

Code generation tooling

Policy-as-code

Schema validation

Git workflows

Automated publishing

Python

Go

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

Container image hardening

Job description

NVIDIA in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Senior Security Engineer focused on Architecture Patterns to embed security into AI pipelines and tooling. You will drive shift-left security, create machine-enforceable standards, and build evaluation harnesses for non-deterministic AI systems.

You will collaborate across teams to evolve enterprise-grade security patterns, scale them with versioning, observability, and access controls, and ensure robust threat modeling and audit capabilities across