Security Engineer

NVIDIA is seeking a highly motivated Security Engineer to join the GPU Software team. You will focus on automating security enforcement across software releases using traditional tooling and AI agents, and help teams adopt them.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the adoption of AI agents in security, finding manual workflows and reinventing them.
• Take proven agentic workflows through development and into production, driving adoption across engineering teams.
• Translate security requirements into automated, per-release checks across software.
• Own and maintain the release security scanning pipeline, prioritizing findings with product teams.
• Collaborate in broader security engineering work, including threat modeling and vulnerability mitigation.

Requirements:

• 5+ years in security engineering, with experience in drivers, kernel, or firmware.
• Strong programming skills in Python and C.
• Hands-on experience building LLM agents or agentic workflows.
• Experience integrating tooling into CI/CD and release pipelines.
• Track record of taking an internal tool from prototype to broad adoption.
• BS or MS degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Application of isolation mechanisms such as sandboxing, containers, virtualization, and privilege separation.
• Built or maintained static or binary analysis tooling.
• Experience defining security baselines or policy-as-code.
• Solid understanding of toolchains such as GCC, GDB.

Benefits:

• Highly competitive salaries
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Equity eligibility

The base salary range is $152,000 - $241,500 USD, depending on location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.