Security Engineer, GPU Kernel Driver
$152k - $288k • Remote • US, CA, Santa Clara
Posted 20d ago
About the job
NVIDIA is seeking a dedicated and creative Security Engineer to join our GPU System Software team. In this role, you will be instrumental in developing mitigations, conducting security research, and building advanced security platforms and frameworks to identify vulnerabilities in complex systems software. This is an exceptional opportunity to contribute to the security of foundational technologies in gaming, professional graphics, and cloud computing, as well as AI, data centers, and healthcare. You will be part of an inclusive team focused on maintaining an industry-leading security posture for groundbreaking products.
Responsibilities
- Manage the security vulnerability backlog for kernel and firmware components, ensuring timely triage, remediation, and SLA compliance, and developing scalable approaches to reduce backlog growth.
- Lead a continuous security pipeline for scanning, triage, root-cause analysis, remediation, and validation across software and firmware components.
- Communicate security risks, posture, and remediation progress to stakeholders through metrics, reports, and engagement.
- Collaborate with engineering and security teams to define and execute long-term security strategy and product hardening.
- Drive and implement security reviews of software and hardware designs to ensure product quality and robustness.
- Evaluate, recommend, and develop cutting-edge security technologies, tools, and practices, including static analysis for security enforcement and dynamic analysis solutions for fuzzing.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of relevant industry software engineering experience.
- Experience with security analysis of complex systems.
- Strong technical background with excellent C programming and low-level driver experience.
- Knowledge of operating systems and computer architecture fundamentals.
- Strong communication, troubleshooting, and debugging skills.
Benefits
- Highly competitive salaries
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Equity
- Eligibility for benefits