# Senior Security Research Architect

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara, CA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5, and 272,000 USD - 431,250 USD for Level 6
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Security Research Architect to define, craft, implement, and guide the implementation of Trusted Execution Environment architecture for NIC and DPUs.

You'll work with diverse teams across NVIDIA and external partners to meet security requirements for state-of-the-art Confidential Computing in various products.

**Responsibilities**

- Research, design, develop, and implement architecture solutions meeting internal and external security requirements and standards

- Apply innovative security primitives to enable next-generation secure platforms

- Collaborate across the company to guide the direction of designing Confidential Computing within DPU and NIC products, working with hardware, software, research, and product teams

- Perform architectural modeling, validation, microarchitectural definition, and develop infrastructure enabling trusted platforms using hardware security methods

- Work with customers and partners to identify and address security issues and threats

- Extend Networking protocol CJDNS and bind it with fully distributed key management

**Requirements**

- MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering or equivalent experience with 12+ years of relevant experience

- First-hand work experience with Trusted Execution Technologies (e.g., AMD SEV, Intel TDX, Intel SGX) on hardware and software levels

- Direct experience with computing platform security, threat models, mitigation techniques, and/or Trusted Execution Environment and isolation techniques to provide trust

- Experience with profiling and modeling isolation architectures and performance evaluation of secure systems

- Familiarity with Trusted Computing attestation methods and its application in overlay mesh networks

- Programming and debugging fundamentals across languages such as Verilog, Python/Perl scripting, ARM assembly, and C/C++

- Strong communication skills and the ability to work in a dynamic collaboration-oriented team

**Benefits**

- Competitive salaries

- Generous benefits package

- Equity eligibility

The base salary range is 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5, and 272,000 USD - 431,250 USD for Level 6.

## Skills

### Required
- Trusted Execution Technologies
- Computing platform security
- Threat models
- Mitigation techniques
- Trusted Execution Environment
- Isolation techniques
- Verilog
- Python
- Perl
- ARM assembly
- C/C++
- Networking protocol CJDNS
- Distributed key management

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