Distinguished Engineer, AI Safety and Security Engineering
$320k - $489k • Remote • US, CA, Santa Clara
Posted 1mo ago
Job Location
US, CA, Santa Clara
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Categories
AI Engineer
About the job
NVIDIA is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to lead the new AI Safety & Security Engineering team. This role is foundational, focusing on building AI-powered tools to identify, validate, and patch software vulnerabilities. You will own the core harness architecture and establish engineering standards, guiding the program from prototypes to a production pipeline. Your technical roadmap will influence how NVIDIA designs, tests, and validates safety-critical AI systems. This position requires close collaboration with engineering managers, security partners, and evaluation teams, acting as a bridge between research and enterprise-grade software engineering. Teaching and mentorship are key components, involving design reviews and upholding high code quality and safety standards.
Responsibilities
- Define the canonical harness architecture and component baseline.
- Set the engineering standards for the team.
- Guide the technical roadmap for finding, validating, and patching vulnerabilities.
- Mentor founding engineers and support their professional growth.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience with 18+ years of designing and building complex systems.
- Deep experience architecting distributed systems, ML pipelines, or large-scale platforms.
- Proven track record of translating research into production-grade engineering.
- Ability to align engineers and researchers on a unified technical direction.
Benefits
- Equity
- Benefits package