Senior Detection Engineer - Remote (SIEM & Threat Hunter)

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

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 like Splunk, Microsoft Defender, and CrowdStrike to help responders identify real threats and reduce noise.

You will translate incidents, hunts, and threat intel into testable production content, own the detection lifecycle from design to retirement, and collaborate with IR, threat intel, and cloud security teams to

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in detection engineering or related security roles.
• A 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, especially SPL, KQL, SQL, Python, or similar languages used to analyze security telemetry and automate repetitive work.

Responsibilities

• Build and tune high-confidence detections across platforms such as Splunk, Microsoft Defender / Defender, CrowdStrike, cloud-native logs, identity telemetry, endpoint data, SaaS platforms, and developer systems.
• Translate incidents, hunts, threat intelligence, red-team findings, and vulnerability context into detection logic we can test and operate.
• Investigate real telemetry before we alert on it, including field behavior, timing, joins, baselines, and the false positives a responder will actually see.
• Drive the full detection lifecycle: design, query development, validation, peer review, documentation, deployment, tuning, monitoring, and retirement.
• Strengthen detection-as-code workflows, including test data, quality checks, metadata, rollout safety, coverage tracking, and detection health reporting.

Skills

SPL

KQL

SQL

Python

Threat detection

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Cybersecurity/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Splunk

Microsoft Defender

CrowdStrike

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 like Splunk, Microsoft Defender, and CrowdStrike to help responders identify real threats and reduce noise.

You will translate incidents, hunts, and threat intel into testable production content, own the detection lifecycle from design to retirement, and collaborate with IR, threat intel, and cloud security teams to