Senior Security Engineer - AI Infrastructure & HPC

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 184,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the security team to design, implement, and evolve security systems for AI infrastructure and data centers. You will work with cross-functional teams to identify risks, respond to incidents, and build resilient security programs for scale.

You will lead security initiatives, develop incident response plans, and ensure compliance with IT and security standards while advancing hardware and software security across NVIDIA’s AI clusters.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience programming secure computing environments in C/C++.
• Experience with Linux security hardening and observability.

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead incident response and disaster recovery plans for pre-production clusters.
• Hardening systems with infrastructure, networking, storage, OS, firmware, and applications teams.
• Train peers on practical security standard methodologies.
• Build and enforce security controls and policies for cluster infrastructure of NVIDIA hardware.
• Investigate security incidents and perform root-cause analysis.

Skills

C/C++

Linux kernel hardening

eBPF observability

Security of large-scale Linux infra

Incident response

Security architectures

Sandboxing AI security

Rust (nice to have)

Education

BS in Computer Science/Engineering/C cybersecurity or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the security team to design, implement, and evolve security systems for AI infrastructure and data centers. You will work with cross-functional teams to identify risks, respond to incidents, and build resilient security programs for scale.

You will lead security initiatives, develop incident response plans, and ensure compliance with IT and security standards while advancing hardware and software security across NVIDIA’s AI clusters.