# Senior Security Firmware Engineer

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara, CA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $184,000 - $287,500 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

NVIDIA is seeking a highly motivated and creative senior security firmware engineer to join the Data Center Systems Software team. The successful candidate will design and deliver firmware that proves the integrity of NVIDIA's data center systems from the first instruction out of reset through attestation, update, and recovery in production.

**Responsibilities:**

- Derive security requirements for NVIDIA's data center platforms from business needs and threat modeling.

- Design and deliver root of trust firmware with features like secure and measured boot, attestation, provisioning of identities and cryptographic material, and secure debug.

- Own features from architecture to code, making trade-offs explicit, gaining agreement across teams, and delivering the implementation.

- Implement industry security standards, such as SPDM and TCG DICE.

- Lead design and code reviews, improve threat modeling, testing, CI, and release practices, and integrate AI agents into the team's workflow.

**Requirements:**

- BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

- 7+ years of software and firmware engineering experience, including products built on a hardware root of trust.

- Deep understanding of root of trust security fundamentals, including chains of trust, signing and key management, attestation, and anti-rollback.

- Strong low-level programming skills and a deep understanding of SoC access controls.

- Familiarity with server firmware and systems software, plus experience building automation using Python or a comparable language.

- A record of leading technical work across teams without formal authority.

- Experience with modern AI and agents, including an AI-forward mindset and proactive adoption of new tools and techniques.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

**Nice to Have:**

- Contributions to open-source root of trust projects or industry security standards.

- Experience building systems with symmetric, asymmetric, and post-quantum cryptography.

- Rust firmware experience.

- Secure Manufacturing at scale.

- Security certifications such as FIPS 140-3.

- Hardware cryptographic accelerators, secure key storage, trusted execution frameworks, and OpenBMC.

The base salary for this position is between $184,000 and $287,500 per year, depending on location, experience, and other objective job-related factors. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

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## Skills

### Required
- root of trust firmware
- security fundamentals
- low-level programming
- SoC access controls
- server firmware
- systems software
- Python
- AI agents

### Nice to have
- open-source root of trust projects
- symmetric and asymmetric cryptography
- Rust firmware
- secure manufacturing
- FIPS 140-3
- hardware cryptographic accelerators
- trusted execution frameworks
- OpenBMC

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