Senior AI Security Engineer

NVIDIA Corporation; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 357,000; Full time

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Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a Senior Engineer for its Agentic & AI Cybersecurity Research team in Seattle. The role focuses on transforming complex problems into practical security solutions across research, product, and partner teams.

You will build tooling for AI cybersecurity, prototype MVPs, and collaborate with multiple orgs to align architecture with real-world workflows. A strong software and security background is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or higher in CS or related field.
• 8+ years in software or security engineering with leadership.
• Experience building backend services, APIs, and automation.
• Experience with AI tooling and agent architectures.
• Proven track record in multi-team collaboration.
• Understanding of security tradeoffs and offensive security concepts.
• Willingness to collaborate across organizational boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Build cybersecurity tooling for AI and related platforms.
• Turn research code into alpha versions of products.
• Prototype MVPs, validate with partner teams, and iterate to production-ready services.
• Develop reusable CLI tools, APIs, and integration patterns.
• Partner with Enterprise Security, Product Security, and platform teams to align architecture with real workflow needs.

Skills

Backend services

APIs

Security engineering

Leadership

AI tooling

Red teaming

Education

CS degree or higher

Master's degree in CS

Equivalent experience

Tools

Git

Containers

Open-source projects

Job description

At NVIDIA, we are stewards of AI. Agents are now a crucial part of cybersecurity where NVIDIA collaborates to set the standard. As model functionality increases and the cybersecurity landscape evolves, we need agents that can seamlessly interface between humans, models, and computing artifacts to build secure environments.

Our Agentic & AI Cybersecurity Research team at NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Engineer. This hands-on role suits someone who transforms sophisticated problems and basic prototypes into practical solutions. They work with research, security, product, and partner teams to build lasting code bases.

What you will be doing:

• Building leading software ahead of the curve to accelerate and improve cybersecurity tooling for AI.
• Collaborating closely with research teams and product teams to be responsible for development of research code into alpha versions of products.
• Rapidly identifying the highest-value MVP for ambiguous security and identity problems, prototyping solutions, validating them with partner teams, and iterating towards production-ready services.
• Developing reusable skills, CLI tools, APIs, and integration patterns to help internal teams embrace secure agent approaches across enterprise tools and platforms.
• Partnering closely with teams across Enterprise Security, Product Security, Enterprise AI, Enterprise Product, and relevant platform teams to align architecture with real workflow needs and operational constraints.

What we need to see:

• Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field.
• 8+ years in software engineering, security engineering, or related areas, including hands-on technical leadership.
• Excellent software engineering skills, including crafting and building backend services, APIs, automation, or platform components in various programming environments. The role requires quickly learning new paradigms, frameworks, and tools as needed.
• Experience with multi-contributor software projects and long-running software projects.
• Familiarity with building agents, AI tooling, and architectures.
• Track record of framing problem spaces, defining an MVP, prototyping quickly, and evolving ideas into production systems.
• Familiarity with offensive security, adversarial thinking, red teaming, or attack-path analysis, capable of applying that perspective to architecture decisions and security tradeoffs.
• Flexibility and willingness to frequently collaborate across organizational boundaries, balancing security with usability and adoption.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Demonstrate strong human-centered thinking, carefully integrating underlying requirements from researchers and users into code.
• Excellent software engineering instincts, including the ability to build reusable frameworks, understand and refine requirements, build tooling that improve engineering velocity and consistency.
• Deep familiarity with open-source projects, including community involvement, workflow, and governance.
• Experience with agentic or AI-adjacent systems, such as tool-using applications, workflow orchestration, evaluation loops, policy controls, memory/context services, or trust and discovery systems.
• Understanding of AI-specific security risks such as injection, tool misuse, unauthorized access expansion, data exfiltration, or unsafe delegation patterns.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4, and 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until October 24, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.