# Principal Cyber Security Engineer - Agentic Identity and Security

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At NVIDIA, AI agents are becoming part of how work gets done across engineering and enterprise workflows. As these systems begin to access tools, call APIs, and participate in multi-step operations, the identity and security controls built primarily for human users need to evolve to support non-human and agent-driven workflows safely and reliably.

We are seeking a Principal Engineer to help define and build core agentic identity capabilities that enable trusted AI agents across NVIDIA's internal ecosystem. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who can turn complex problems into practical designs, quickly prototype solutions, and work across identity, security, platform, and application teams to bring the right infrastructure into production.

The successful candidate will have a strong background in software engineering, security engineering, identity, distributed systems, or related areas, with significant hands-on technical leadership experience. They will be able to frame sophisticated problem spaces, define an MVP, prototype quickly, and evolve ideas into reliable production systems.

Key responsibilities will include:

- Architecting and building agent identity security features for agent use cases across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.

- Rapidly identifying the highest-value MVP for ambiguous security and identity problems, prototyping solutions, validating them with partner teams, and iterating toward production-ready services.

- Building reusable skills, CLI tools, APIs, and integration patterns that help internal teams embrace secure agent identity approaches across enterprise tools and platforms.

- Partnering closely with teams across Enterprise Security, Product Security, Enterprise AI, Enterprise Product, and relevant platform teams to align architecture with real workflow needs and operational constraints.

The ideal candidate will have a strong full-stack or software engineering instinct, including the ability to build reusable frameworks, APIs, and tooling that improve engineering velocity and consistency. They will also have experience with agentic or AI-adjacent systems, such as tool-using applications, workflow orchestration, evaluation loops, policy controls, memory/context services, or trust and discovery systems.

In addition, the successful candidate will have good understanding of existing and emerging identity and access concepts such as OAuth 2.0/2.1, OIDC, SCIM, mTLS, SPIFFE, MCP, AuthZen, certificate lifecycle management, and secrets management.

## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- security engineering
- identity
- distributed systems
- container technologies
- network infrastructure
- cloud service provider environments
- OAuth 2.0/2.1
- OIDC
- SCIM
- mTLS
- SPIFFE
- MCP
- AuthZen
- certificate lifecycle management
- secrets management

### Nice to have
- agentic or AI-adjacent systems
- tool-using applications
- workflow orchestration
- evaluation loops
- policy controls
- memory/context services
- trust and discovery systems

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