Senior GPU Offensive Security Engineer - Firmware & Kernel

NVIDIA; Washington; Hybrid; USD 224,000 - 431,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a highly motivated Offensive Security Researcher to join the Offensive Security Research (OSR) team. You will attack GPU firmware, microcode, kernel drivers, and embedded software to design mitigations that make the next attack harder.

NVIDIA silicon runs AI data centers, automotive, networking, and gaming. The OSR team works across architecture, hardware, and software to close bug classes with mitigations such as hardware CFI, Pointer Masking, and Memory Tagging, while

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.
• Vulnerability research experience: fuzzing, static and dynamic analysis, exploit development, and coverage-guided techniques.
• Experience with secure development lifecycle practices such as threat modeling, code audit, and incident response.
• Experience applying AI and LLM-based tooling to vulnerability discovery, triage, or analysis.
• Ability to work collaboratively and remotely on complex, cross-team goals.

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 language

Assembly

Low-level driver

Firmware

Vulnerability research

Threat modeling

Code audit

Incident response

AI tooling in security

Remote collaboration

Education

Electrical Engineering

Computer Science

Tools

LLVM

GCC

Fuzzing tools

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a highly motivated Offensive Security Researcher to join the Offensive Security Research (OSR) team. You will attack GPU firmware, microcode, kernel drivers, and embedded software to design mitigations that make the next attack harder.

NVIDIA silicon runs AI data centers, automotive, networking, and gaming. The OSR team works across architecture, hardware, and software to close bug classes with mitigations such as hardware CFI, Pointer Masking, and Memory Tagging, while