Senior Security Engineer – RTOS & Automotive Virtualization

Nvidia Corporation in; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 357,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA is hiring a Senior Security Engineer, RTOS and Virtualization to advance security for RTOS, hypervisor, and embedded virtualization within NVIDIA DRIVE software. You will work across design, implementation, and verification to ensure real-time safety and robust defense against threats.

The role requires 8+ years in security for embedded systems, strong C/C++ skills, and experience with automotive cybersecurity standards.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in systems, embedded, platform, product, or automotive security.
• Experience securing RTOS, hypervisor, kernel, firmware, boot, driver, or other privileged software.
• Strong C/C++ skills with emphasis on memory safety, concurrency, isolation.
• Familiarity with CPU/SoC security concepts (MMU/SMMU/IOMMU, DMA, interrupts, boot).
• Experience with threat modeling, vulnerability analysis, fuzzing, and security remediation.
• Familiarity with ISO/SAE 21434, UN R155, ISO 26262 interfaces, Automotive SPICE.

Responsibilities

• Lead security engineering for RTOS, hypervisor, and embedded virtualization across design, implementation, review, and verification.
• Collaborate on CPU and SoC architecture including privilege levels, memory protection, DMA, interrupts, boot flows, and hardware isolation.
• Build and implement defensive features like strong partitioning, least-privilege access, secure updates, and recovery from malicious inputs.
• Perform threat modeling and automotive TARA, mapping risks to standards, tests, and evidence.
• Review low-level C/C++ code, investigate vulnerabilities, build fuzzing and security test infra, drive fixes into production.

Skills

C/C++

Security engineering

RTOS security

Hypervisor security

threat modeling

Automotive security concepts

Education

BSEE/ BSCS degree or equivalent experience

Job description

NVIDIA is hiring a Senior Security Engineer, RTOS and Virtualization to advance security for RTOS, hypervisor, and embedded virtualization within NVIDIA DRIVE software. You will work across design, implementation, and verification to ensure real-time safety and robust defense against threats.

The role requires 8+ years in security for embedded systems, strong C/C++ skills, and experience with automotive cybersecurity standards.