Senior Detection Engineer - Equity & High-Impact Security

NVIDIA Corporation; New York (NY); On-site; USD 168,000 - 311,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a Senior Detection Engineer to join the Detection and Automation Engineering team. You will build and tune high-confidence detections across platforms, translating incidents and threat findings into tested production content.

You will steer the full detection lifecycle from design to deployment, collaborate with responders to reduce noise and improve detections, and strengthen detection-as-code workflows with robust testing and metadata.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in detection engineering, security engineering, threat hunting, incident response, SOC engineering, or information security monitoring.
• Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Hands-on experience building and tuning detections in a major SIEM or security analytics platform.
• Strong query and scripting skills (SPL, KQL, SQL, Python or similar).
• Understanding attacker behavior across identity, endpoint, cloud, network, email, and data theft.
• Ability to move from raw logs to production-ready detections with proper context and thresholds.
• Comfort working with Git, code review, CI/CD, and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Build and tune high-confidence detections across platforms (Splunk, Defender, CrowdStrike and cloud-native logs).
• Translate incidents, hunts, threat intel, red-team findings, and vulnerability context into testable detection logic.
• Investigate telemetry before alerts, including field behavior, timing, joins, baselines and false positives.
• Drive the full detection lifecycle: design, query development, validation, peer review, documentation, deployment and tuning.
• Strengthen detection-as-code workflows with test data, metadata, and rollout safety.
• Partner with responders to cut noise, add context, improve severity decisions, and build follow-up detections.
• Shape logging, normalization, enrichment, and retention requirements when telemetry is missing or hard to use.
• Coach analysts through design reviews, query reviews, and guidance on detection credibility.

Skills

Detection engineering

Threat hunting

Incident response

Security analytics

Scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Cybersecurity/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Splunk

Microsoft Defender

CrowdStrike

Git

Python

CI/CD tooling

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a Senior Detection Engineer to join the Detection and Automation Engineering team. You will build and tune high-confidence detections across platforms, translating incidents and threat findings into tested production content.

You will steer the full detection lifecycle from design to deployment, collaborate with responders to reduce noise and improve detections, and strengthen detection-as-code workflows with robust testing and metadata.