Senior AI Security Engineer — Equity & Agentic Security

NVIDIA Corporation; Massachusetts; On-site; USD 184,000 - 357,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a Senior Engineer for its Agentic & AI Cybersecurity Research team in the United States. The role emphasizes transforming research ideas into production-grade code while collaborating with research, product, and partner teams to build secure agent-based solutions.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years of software/security leadership, strong backend/API/automation skills, and experience with agentic AI tooling and secure architectures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 8+ years in software/security engineering with hands-on leadership.
• Experience crafting backend services, APIs, automation, or platform components.
• Familiarity with multi-contributor software projects and long-running efforts.
• Familiarity with building agents, AI tooling, and architectures.
• Track record from framing problem spaces to MVPs and production systems.
• Knowledge of offensive security, attack-path analysis, and security tradeoffs.
• Willingness to collaborate across organizational boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Build leading software to accelerate cybersecurity tooling for AI.
• Translate research code into alpha product versions with cross-functional teams.
• Prototype high-value MVPs for security/identity problems and evolve to production services.
• Develop reusable skills, CLI tools, APIs, and integration patterns for secure agent approaches.
• Align architecture with real workflow needs across Enterprise Security and Platform teams.

Skills

Backend services

APIs

Automation

Platform components

New paradigms

Collaborative projects

Agentic AI tooling

Security engineering

Adversarial thinking

Education

CS degree or related

Tools

Open-source familiarity

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a Senior Engineer for its Agentic & AI Cybersecurity Research team in the United States. The role emphasizes transforming research ideas into production-grade code while collaborating with research, product, and partner teams to build secure agent-based solutions.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years of software/security leadership, strong backend/API/automation skills, and experience with agentic AI tooling and secure architectures.