Senior Security Engineer – RTOS & Hypervisor Virtualization

NVIDIA Gruppe; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 357,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

NVIDIA DRIVE Software is seeking a Senior Security Engineer for RTOS and virtualization to lead security engineering across design, implementation, review, and verification of RTOS, hypervisor, and embedded virtualization technologies.

You will collaborate on CPU/SoC architecture, implement defenses, and drive fuzzing, vulnerability analysis, and safety alignment using ISO/SAE 21434 and related standards. This role emphasizes security, memory safety, and privileged software protection.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in systems, embedded, platform, product, or automotive security.
• BSEE/ BSCS degree or equivalent experience.
• Experience securing RTOS, hypervisor, kernel, firmware, boot, driver, or other privileged software.
• Strong C/C++ skills, with focus on memory safety, concurrency, resource ownership, privilege boundaries, and isolation.
• Familiarity with CPU and SoC security concepts including MMU/SMMU or IOMMU, DMA, interrupts, boot, debug, and hardware-backed isolation.
• Experience with threat modeling, vulnerability analysis, exploitability assessment, fuzzing, static or dynamic analysis, and security remediation.
• Familiarity with automotive cybersecurity, safety, or process standards such as ISO/SAE 21434, UN R155, ISO 26262 interfaces, or Automotive SPICE.

Responsibilities

• Lead security engineering for RTOS, hypervisor, and embedded virtualization technologies 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++ proficiency

Threat modeling

Memory safety

Vulnerability analysis

Static/dynamic analysis

Automotive security standards

CPU/SoC security concepts

Education

BSEE/ BSCS degree

Job description

NVIDIA DRIVE Software is seeking a Senior Security Engineer for RTOS and virtualization to lead security engineering across design, implementation, review, and verification of RTOS, hypervisor, and embedded virtualization technologies.

You will collaborate on CPU/SoC architecture, implement defenses, and drive fuzzing, vulnerability analysis, and safety alignment using ISO/SAE 21434 and related standards. This role emphasizes security, memory safety, and privileged software protection.