Senior NVIDIA Offensive Security Researcher, GPU System Software

NVIDIA; North Carolina; On-site; USD 224,000 - 431,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA is looking for a highly motivated Offensive Security Researcher to join the OSR team and attack production GPU firmware and microcode, kernel drivers, and embedded software to help design mitigations.

We seek a BS in Electrical/Computer Engineering or CS with 12+ years, strong C/assembly, vulnerability research, and secure SDLC experience; remote collaboration is valued. NVIDIA offers equity and benefits, with applications accepted until Sept 26, 2026.

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

Assembly

Firmware

Kernel drivers

Vulnerability research

Fuzzing

Static analysis

Dynamic analysis

Exploit development

Threat modeling

Incident response

AI tooling in security

Education

BS in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience

Tools

LLVM

GCC

Job description

NVIDIA is looking for a highly motivated and creative Offensive Security Researcher with deep experience in low-level system software (firmware, microcode, kernel drivers) to join the NVIDIA Offensive Security Research (OSR) team. You will attack our production GPU firmware and microcode, kernel drivers, and embedded software before adversaries do, and help design the mitigations that make the next attack harder.

What You’ll Be Doing

• 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.

What We Need To See

• 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.

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd

• Firmware or embedded reverse engineering, especially on RISC‑V or other non‑x86 architectures.
• Experience designing hardware or compiler‑assisted mitigations from the ground up, including compiler modifications (LLVM, GCC).
• Familiarity with computer architecture fundamentals: caches, buses, memory controllers, DMA, MMUs, and IOMMUs.
• Experience with formally verifiable languages or methods (SPARK, Ada, Rust, model checking).
• Published research, such as talks at BH or DEF CON, or articles in publications like Phrack.

NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward‑thinking and hardworking people on the planet working for us. NVIDIA is leading the way in groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence, High‑Performance Computing and Visualization. The GPU, our invention, serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is at the heart of our products and services.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5, and 272,000 USD - 431,250 USD for Level 6.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until September 26, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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