# Software Security Architect

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive

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## Description

Join NVIDIA's DRIVE OS Automotive Software team as a Software Security Architect. You'll contribute to developing safety-critical automotive platforms that meet high-performance demands while being resilient to cyber-attacks.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Define, analyze, and review secure software architectures for centralized automotive computing platforms.

- Perform threat modeling and security architecture analysis for mixed-criticality, multi-tenant automotive software systems.

- Partner with safety architects to reason about the interaction between security controls, safety mechanisms, failure modes, and recovery behavior.

- Define OS security policy, access control, isolation, and privilege models across Android, Linux, QNX, and virtualized environments.

- Build security systems that maintain integrity and availability for safety-critical vehicle software.

- Analyze security trade-offs involving performance, latency, memory footprint, boot time, diagnosability, and functional safety requirements.

- Guide engineering teams on secure build, secure coding, threat mitigation, and security review practices.

- Collaborate across software, hardware, safety, security, and systems teams to meet NVIDIA and automotive industry standards.

**Requirements:**

- 12+ years of experience in secure and safe embedded software development.

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

- Strong background in embedded systems security, platform security, and OS security applied to high-performance computers (HPCs).

- Solid understanding of software safety principles and their interplay with secure develop principles when applied to mixed-criticality systems.

- Experience implementing security frameworks to address integrity and availability issues.

- Experience with threat modeling, applied cryptography, common attack vectors, and security reviews.

- Familiarity with ARM-based SoC architecture, including caches, buses, memory controllers, debug, interrupt handling, and device access control.

- Familiarity with OS architecture, kernel concepts, drivers, process isolation, memory protection, and networking protocols such as Ethernet, TCP/IP, and TLS.

- Experience with virtualization technologies and building secure multi-tenant embedded platforms.

**Nice to Have:**

- Hands-on experience with both ISO/SAE 21434 and ISO 26262, including TARA, HARA, and safety-security co-analysis.

- Experience crafting security architecture for safety-critical embedded systems.

- Deep experience with hypervisors, kernels, device drivers, boot firmware, debug infrastructure, or low-level platform security.

- Experience with formal specification, formal verification, and model checking.

- Ability to translate between safety, security, systems, and software engineering teams and drive practical architectural decisions.

NVIDIA offers highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package.

## Skills

### Required
- embedded systems security
- platform security
- OS security
- threat modeling
- security architecture analysis
- ARM-based SoC architecture
- OS architecture
- kernel concepts
- virtualization technologies

### Nice to have
- ISO/SAE 21434
- ISO 26262
- TARA
- HARA
- safety-security co-analysis
- hypervisors
- kernels
- device drivers
- boot firmware
- debug infrastructure
- low-level platform security
- formal specification
- formal verification
- model checking

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