# Security Architect - New College Grad 2026

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara, CA
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

NVIDIA is seeking a Security Architect to join the team defining and advancing security architecture for innovative SoCs and GPUs.

In this role, you will work with experienced security architects and multi-functional engineering teams to help evaluate platform security requirements, support security certification efforts, and contribute to secure designs across automotive, gaming, and server platforms.

You will gain hands-on experience in security certification and assurance programs, silicon security, secure boot, measured boot, hardware root of trust, cryptography, CPU security architecture, and SoC security design.

**Responsibilities:**

- Support security certification and compliance efforts for NVIDIA chips and platforms, including FIPS 140-3, EU CRA, ISO 21434, Caliptra trademark audit, and related assurance programs.

- Assist with certification documentation, implementation tracking, evidence collection, compliance mapping, and coordination with internal teams, external labs, auditors, and certification stakeholders.

- Help translate security requirements and certification expectations into practical engineering guidance for hardware, firmware, and software teams.

- Review architecture, verification, and firewall specifications with guidance from senior architects to help assess whether IPs meet platform security requirements.

- Contribute to threat modeling by identifying trust boundaries, attack surfaces, assets, assumptions, and potential mitigations.

- Contribute to security architecture documentation, design review checklists, certification materials, compliance mappings, and internal guidance.

- Collaborate with security architects, hardware teams, software teams, verification teams, and product teams to help evaluate platform security requirements.

- Build and improve AI-assisted tools and workflows that help security architects review specifications, identify security requirements, summarize technical evidence, and scale threat modeling across complex SoC and GPU programs.

- Explore practical uses of LLMs and automation to improve security architecture productivity while protecting confidential design information and maintaining engineering rigor.

**Requirements:**

- Pursuing or recently completed a MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

- Great foundation in computer architecture, digital logic, operating systems, embedded systems, or computer security.

- Coursework, internship, research, project, or equivalent experience in security, computer architecture, hardware design, or cryptography.

- Programming and debugging fundamentals in one or more of C, C++, Python, Verilog, System Verilog, ARM assembly, RISC V assembly, or scripting languages.

- Strong analytical, reasoning, collaboration, and problem-solving skills for working across engineering teams.

- Curiosity and genuine interest in learning security architecture for complex SoCs and GPUs.

- Interest in learning how AI tools and automation can improve engineering workflows, including documentation, analysis, and security review tasks.

**Benefits:**

- Equity

- Benefits

## Skills

### Required
- computer architecture
- digital logic
- operating systems
- embedded systems
- computer security
- cryptography
- C
- C++
- Python
- Verilog
- System Verilog
- ARM assembly
- RISC V assembly

### Nice to have
- SoC security
- platform security
- secure boot
- measured boot
- hardware root of trust
- key management
- debug security
- isolation
- memory protection
- cryptographic algorithms
- standards
- implementations
- secure protocol usage
- threat modeling
- vulnerability research
- CTFs
- secure design review
- security testing
- ASIC design concepts
- RTL
- verification
- embedded firmware

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