Senior Firmware Security Architect - Equity & Global Impact

NVIDIA Corporation; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation seeks an experienced technical security architect for NVIDIA Networking. You will partner with firmware, hardware, and architecture teams to strengthen security posture across NVIDIA networking products.

Responsibilities include threat modeling, defining mitigations, and guiding engineering through secure implementations, lifecycle provisioning, attestation, and secure updates. Equity and benefits eligible.

Qualifications

• Academic degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Demonstrated experience of 8+ years in product security, firmware security, or security research, including hands-on work with embedded or firmware codebases.
• Experience with hardware/software interfaces in networking devices — register and MMIO programming models, DMA, mailbox and doorbell mechanisms, PCIe configuration and management interfaces, and the firmware that drives them.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Translate threat models into actionable security requirements and architectural decisions, and review designs and implementations against them.
• Guide engineering teams throughout implementation and ensure secure interfaces between firmware and hardware.

Skills

Security architecture

Threat modeling

Firmware security

Embedded systems

Networking security

RBAC

Policy modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE

MS or PhD in CS/EE

Tools

PCIe interfaces

DMA

MMIO

Firmware development tooling

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation seeks an experienced technical security architect for NVIDIA Networking. You will partner with firmware, hardware, and architecture teams to strengthen security posture across NVIDIA networking products.

Responsibilities include threat modeling, defining mitigations, and guiding engineering through secure implementations, lifecycle provisioning, attestation, and secure updates. Equity and benefits eligible.