Senior Firmware Security Architect - Equity Eligible

NVIDIA Corporation; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

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Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking an outstanding security architect to strengthen the security posture of NVIDIA Networking firmware. You will collaborate with firmware, hardware, and architecture teams to design robust security features across trust boundaries, secure boot, and key storage, while driving policy-based protections across devices worldwide.

You will model threats, define mitigations, and guide engineers through implementation, with emphasis on authorization schemes, RBAC, and secure

Qualifications

• Academic degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years in product security, firmware security, or security research, including hands-on work with embedded or firmware codebases.
• Experience defining security policy models — authorization schemes, RBAC, and administrative role separation — including how policy is expressed, enforced, and administered in production.
• SC. or PhD in computer science, electrical engineering, or related technical field.

Responsibilities

• Partner with firmware, hardware, and architecture teams on the security architecture to reduce risk, threats, and vulnerabilities.
• Be involved in the security architecture of NVIDIA Networking firmware — trust boundaries, privilege separation between firmware domains, device identity and key storage, secure boot and chain of trust, and secure update and anti-rollback flows.
• Perform security threat modeling of firmware and embedded subsystems across NVIDIA Networking products.
• Define security features and mitigations spanning the full device lifecycle — provisioning, attestation, debug authorization, runtime hardening, and field update. Guide the engineering teams throughout the implementation.
• Translate threat models into actionable security requirements and architectural decisions, and review designs and implementations against them.

Skills

Security architecture

Threat modeling

Embedded firmware security

Security policy models

Education

Academic degree: CS/EE or related

SC/PhD in CS/EE or related field

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking an outstanding security architect to strengthen the security posture of NVIDIA Networking firmware. You will collaborate with firmware, hardware, and architecture teams to design robust security features across trust boundaries, secure boot, and key storage, while driving policy-based protections across devices worldwide.

You will model threats, define mitigations, and guide engineers through implementation, with emphasis on authorization schemes, RBAC, and secure