Senior Cyber Defense & Incident Response Engineer

NVIDIA Corporation; California City (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation seeks a Cybersecurity Analyst with deep expertise in incident response, forensics, threat hunting, and proactive cyber defense. You will lead efforts to detect, analyze, and respond to sophisticated attacks targeting NVIDIA’s corporate, cloud, and product ecosystems.

Join a team collaborating with security engineers, data scientists, and AI researchers to shape product security technologies, with equity eligibility and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of hands-on incident response and threat hunting.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security principles, IAM, and workload protection.
• Experience with product security investigations, vulnerability analysis, and secure coding practices.
• Proficiency in forensic analysis, intrusion detection, and threat intelligence.
• Advanced knowledge of network analysis, OS internals (Windows/Linux/macOS), and web app security.

Responsibilities

• Lead incident response for corporate, cloud, and product environments; containment, eradication, and recovery.
• Perform threat hunting across endpoints, networks, and cloud workloads.
• Conduct cloud incident response for AWS, Azure, and GCP, including log analysis and identity compromise investigations.
• Perform digital forensics and malware analysis to support investigations and root cause analysis.
• Develop and optimize security automation playbooks to accelerate detection and response.
• Refine detections and defense strategies using MITRE ATT&CK and product telemetry.

Skills

Incident response

Threat hunting

Forensics analysis

Security policy guidance

Security automation

Python/Go development

Cloud security

Threat intelligence

Network analysis

OS internals

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS GuardDuty

Azure Sentinel

GCP Security Command Center

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation seeks a Cybersecurity Analyst with deep expertise in incident response, forensics, threat hunting, and proactive cyber defense. You will lead efforts to detect, analyze, and respond to sophisticated attacks targeting NVIDIA’s corporate, cloud, and product ecosystems.

Join a team collaborating with security engineers, data scientists, and AI researchers to shape product security technologies, with equity eligibility and comprehensive benefits.