Senior Security Engineer - RTOS & Embedded Virtualization

NVIDIA; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 357,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA in Redmond seeks an experienced security engineer to lead embedded security across RTOS, hypervisor, and boot chains for automotive-grade platforms. You will drive defensible architectures and threat mitigation strategies.

You will collaborate on SoC design, enforce memory safety in C/C++, and apply fuzzing, vulnerability analysis, and remediation aligned with ISO/SAE 21434 and related standards.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in systems, embedded, platform, product, or automotive security.
• BS EE/CS degree or equivalent experience.
• Experience securing RTOS, hypervisor, kernel, firmware, boot, driver, or privileged software.
• Strong C/C++ skills focusing on memory safety, concurrency, and isolation.
• Familiarity with MMU/SMMU/IOMMU, DMA, interrupts, boot, and hardware-backed isolation.
• Experience with threat modeling, vulnerability analysis, fuzzing, static/dynamic analysis, and remediation.
• Familiarity with ISO/SAE 21434, UN R155, ISO 26262 interfaces, or 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, debug controls, and hardware isolation.
• Build and implement defensive features such as strong partitioning, least-privilege access, secure communication, fault containment, secure updates, and recovery from malicious inputs.
• Perform threat modeling and automotive TARA, and connect risks, mitigations, requirements, tests, and evidence to security and safety standards.
• Review low-level C/C++ code, investigate vulnerabilities, build fuzzing and security test infrastructure, and drive fixes into production.

Skills

C/C++ security

Threat modeling

Vulnerability analysis

Fuzzing

Memory safety

Boot/firmware security

Isolation concepts

Education

BS in ECE/CS or related

Tools

Fuzzing frameworks

Static/Dynamic analysis tools

Security testing frameworks

Job description

NVIDIA in Redmond seeks an experienced security engineer to lead embedded security across RTOS, hypervisor, and boot chains for automotive-grade platforms. You will drive defensible architectures and threat mitigation strategies.

You will collaborate on SoC design, enforce memory safety in C/C++, and apply fuzzing, vulnerability analysis, and remediation aligned with ISO/SAE 21434 and related standards.