Senior Firmware Security Architect, Networking

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 Networking product security team is looking for an outstanding technical security architect with hands-on experience to help us improve the security posture of NVIDIA networking products. In this role you will partner with firmware, hardware, and architecture teams on the security architecture, to reduce risk, threats, and vulnerabilities while driving new security features that affect millions of devices all over the world! 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. Analyze complex firmware and hardware/firmware interactions to identify security weaknesses, including boot flows, privileged execution environments, and host- and network-facing management interfaces. 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. 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 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. 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. Hands-on experience with networking software — device drivers, control plane, management interfaces, or embedded network operating systems — and an understanding of how these components interact with firmware. Familiarity with high-scale deployment, the data center security ecosystem and its operational challenges. If you're a creative and autonomous engineer with a genuine passion for technology, we want to hear from you.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until October 23, 2026.

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