# Security Engineer

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

NVIDIA is seeking a highly motivated Security Engineer to join the GPU Software team. You will anchor PSIRT and security responses for the largest, most diverse SW organization within NVIDIA.

**Job Overview** As a Security Engineer, you will be responsible for program leadership, triage and prioritization, technical investigation, remediation coordination, and tooling and enablement.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Program leadership: Own GPU-SW PSIRT as the central point of contact for engineering teams. Communicate risks, advocate for PSIRT priorities, and report metrics to security leadership.

- Triage and prioritization: Assess report validity and severity, draft CVSS, CVE, CWE details, and prioritize cases by technical severity, media attention, and business impact.

- Technical investigation: Reproduce vulnerabilities, determine root causes, and recommend fixes. Lead urgent zero-day responses.

- Remediation coordination: Identify owners from sparse crash logs, track bugs, communicate and ensure SLAs.

- Tooling and enablement: Develop risk dashboards, automate triage, routing, and scoring with LLMs. Train engineers on PSIRT processes and vulnerability response.

**Requirements**

- BS or MS degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related degree.

- 12+ years of vulnerability management or PSIRT experience in complex organizations.

- Ability to clearly articulate security issues and practical consequences to diverse levels of engineering and management.

- Strong C programming skills with hands-on experience in embedded systems or device drivers.

- Proven track record to debug crashes, reproduce vulnerabilities, and identify root causes.

- Familiarity with system architecture fundamentals (caches, buses, memory controllers, DMA).

**Nice to Have**

- Performed as a PSIRT lead in a large organization with complex communication requirements.

- Offensive security, debugging experience in kernel, drivers, fw.

- Demonstrated ability to deploy agentic workflows.

- Experience with inner workings of toolchains such as GCC, GDB.

- Experience with embedded system SW concepts, e.g., RTOS and overlay programming models.

**Benefits** NVIDIA offers highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- C programming
- embedded systems
- device drivers
- vulnerability management
- PSIRT
- system architecture

### Nice to have
- offensive security
- debugging
- kernel
- drivers
- fw
- agentic workflows
- GCC
- GDB
- RTOS
- overlay programming models

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