Senior Detection Engineer: Threat Detection & SIEM

NVIDIA Corporation; United States; Remote; 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 to build reliable detections across enterprise, cloud, AI, and production environments. You will translate incidents into production-ready detection logic and drive the full detection lifecycle with cross-functional partners.

Ideal candidates bring 8+ years of relevant experience, strong SPL/KQL/Python skills, and hands-on SIEM work.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in detection/security engineering, threat hunting, IR, SOC engineering, or SIEM 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 developer tools.
• Ability to move from raw logs to production-ready detections with proper thresholds and baselines.
• Comfortable with Git, code reviews, CI/CD, documentation, and ownership of content shipped.
• Clear communication and sound judgment about when to alert and what it means.

Responsibilities

• Build and tune high-confidence detections across platforms (Splunk, Sentinel, CrowdStrike, cloud logs, identity telemetry, endpoints, SaaS, dev systems).
• Translate incidents, hunts, intel, red-team results into testable detection logic.
• Investigate telemetry before alerting, including field behavior, timing, joins, baselines, and FPs.
• Lead the full detection lifecycle: design, query development, validation, peer review, deployment, tuning, and retirement.
• Strengthen detection-as-code workflows: test data, quality checks, metadata, rollout safety, coverage, health reporting.
• Partner with responders to reduce noise and provide actionable context.
• Shape logging/normalization/retention requirements when telemetry is missing or hard to use.
• Mentor analysts and engineers through design reviews and guidance on detection credibility.

Skills

Detection engineering

SPL/KQL/SQL/Python

Git/CI-CD

Threat hunting

Incident response

Threat intelligence

Communication

Incident write-ups & red-team

Education

B.S. in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Splunk

Microsoft Sentinel

CrowdStrike

Cloud-native logs

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a Senior Detection Engineer to join the Detection and Automation Engineering team to build reliable detections across enterprise, cloud, AI, and production environments. You will translate incidents into production-ready detection logic and drive the full detection lifecycle with cross-functional partners.

Ideal candidates bring 8+ years of relevant experience, strong SPL/KQL/Python skills, and hands-on SIEM work.