Senior GPU Firmware Offensive Security Researcher

NVIDIA; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 224,000 - 431,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a highly motivated Offensive Security Researcher to join the OSR team. You will attack production GPU firmware, microcode, kernel drivers, and embedded software to design mitigations that raise the bar against attackers.

The role requires deep experience in low-level system software, vulnerability research, and collaboration across hardware, software, and architecture teams. NVIDIA offers equity and benefits and a path for advanced architecture work.

Qualifications

• BS in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of relevant software engineering or security research experience.
• Demonstrated experience in an offensive security role.
• Excellent C and assembly skills and hands-on low-level driver or firmware experience.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for the end-to-end security story for specific subcomponents, from threat model to hardening to verification.
• Design, prototype, and drive production adoption of new mitigation and hardening technologies (hardware CFI, Pointer Masking, Memory Tagging, and others).
• Build and evangelize tools, practices, and processes that raise product robustness across the company.
• Perform offensive security research across GPU and platform firmware, microcode, kernel drivers, and embedded software.
• Identify vulnerabilities, build proof-of-concept exploits, and partner with development teams to remediate them.
• Perform threat analysis and security reviews of software and hardware designs.

Skills

C

Assembly

Threat modeling

Offensive security

Education

BS in Electrical or Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Tools

LLVM

GCC

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a highly motivated Offensive Security Researcher to join the OSR team. You will attack production GPU firmware, microcode, kernel drivers, and embedded software to design mitigations that raise the bar against attackers.

The role requires deep experience in low-level system software, vulnerability research, and collaboration across hardware, software, and architecture teams. NVIDIA offers equity and benefits and a path for advanced architecture work.