Security Engineer

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.