Senior Firmware Security Engineer

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 242,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation seeks a security software engineer to join the GPU Firmware team and help secure the boot software that powers our GPUs. You’ll design, implement, test and optimize firmware in resource-constrained environments, focusing on secure boot, attestation and root-of-trust components.

You’ll collaborate with hardware and software teams, participate in security reviews, and help improve build systems and infrastructure to support a robust security posture across gaming and data center

Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in EE/CS/CE (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years’ experience in developing device BIOS, firmware, or other low-level software.
• 2+ years’ experience in building secure firmware and working with hardware security components.
• Strong C programming skills and secure software fundamentals (cryptography, authentication/attestation, chains of trust).
• Collaborative with hardware designers and software engineers to design, develop, and debug GPU subsystems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, debug, and optimize GPU firmware throughout the entire GPU lifecycle
• Continuously evaluate and improve the security posture of firmware and hardware that form the root of trust for our products
• Improve team software process and core infrastructure by enhancing build systems, regression farms, and security test infrastructure
• Participate in in-depth security reviews of software, hardware, process, and infrastructure
• Facilitate security requirements and solutions by participating in industry standards such as NIST, Open Compute Project, DMTF etc., and aligning with key customers and partners
• Collaborate with NVIDIA’s and third-party vendors’ hardware and software teams to improve security across hardware, BootROMs, and software stacks
• Work within a larger virtual security team on other parts of the GPU stack, as necessary

Skills

Strong C skills

Cryptography fundamentals

Attestation & chain of trust

Collaborative hardware collaboration

Education

BS or MS in EE/CS/CE

Job description

Do you enjoy hacking and tinkering at the lowest levels of software? Are you capable of crafting and implementing creative secure firmware solutions in heavily resource-constrained environments? If so, you’re primed to help develop the boot software that powers the world’s best GPUs. NVIDIA is searching for an outstanding security software engineer to fill an exciting, yet fun role on our GPU Firmware team. You will be joining a team whose primary mission is solving the intricate enigma of securing and innovating the boot process for our GPUs, while working through the formidable constraints of boot-time and storage space. Every. Byte. Counts.

The GPU Firmware team builds the root of trust firmware for GPUs that provides secure boot, update, and attestation services for all our GPU products from gaming to high-performance compute in the datacenter. We want your help to build an industry leading security posture for a security critical component across all these products.

What you’ll be doing:

• Design, develop, test, debug, and optimize GPU firmware throughout the entire GPU lifecycle
• Continuously evaluate and improve the security posture of firmware and hardware that form the root of trust for our products
• Improve team software process and core infrastructure by enhancing build systems, regression farms, and security test infrastructure
• Participate in in-depth security reviews of software, hardware, process, and infrastructure
• Facilitate security requirements and solutions by participating in industry standards such as NIST, Open Compute Project, DMTF etc., and aligning with key customers and partners
• Collaborate with NVIDIA’s and third-party vendors’ hardware and software teams to improve security across hardware, BootROMs, and software stacks
• Work within a larger virtual security team on other parts of the GPU stack, as necessary

What we need to see:

• BS or MS degree in EE/CS/CE (or equivalent experience)
• 5+ years’ experience in developing device BIOS, firmware, or other low-level software
• 2+ years’ experience in building secure firmware and working with hardware security components
• Strong C skills
• Secure software fundamentals including cryptography, authentication/attestation, chains of trust, and understanding of common SW security vulnerabilities
• Easy to work with, as you’ll constantly work closely with both hardware designers and other software engineers to design, develop, and debug functional (and non-functional!) aspects of GPU subsystems

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Experience with threat modeling, formal design analysis, hardware/firmware architecture, and other demonstrable security experience in a defensive security focused role.
• Background with secure development techniques such as attack-trees, static/dynamic analysis, fuzzing, and negative testing
• Experience developing for safety critical platforms
• Experience with formal verification
• Passion for your work

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 152,000 USD - 241,500 USD.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until October 17, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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