$184,000 – $287,500
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What this role is
NVIDIA is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to design and implement security systems protecting large-scale AI infrastructure and computing environments. This role suits experienced security engineers who want to work on incident response, infrastructure hardening, and policy development for cutting-edge hardware and datacenter platforms.
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What they ask for
Required
- 8+ years of relevant security or systems engineering experience
- Programming experience in C/C++
- Linux kernel hardening with SELinux or AppArmor
- eBPF observability
- Experience securing large-scale Linux infrastructure
- Understanding of security risks and mitigation
- Incident response and breach handling experience
- Ability to communicate with technical and leadership audiences
- Compute and networking systems security architecture knowledge
- Experience securing AI systems with sandboxing and threat detection
- BS in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or equivalent experience
Nice to have
- Secure software development in Rust
- Modern authentication frameworks (OAuth 2.1, OIDC, Kerberos, FIDO2/WebAuthn)
- Microsoft Active Directory and Entra ID administration
- Linux centralized identity management (FreeIPA/RHEL IdM/SSSD)
- PKI lifecycle management and Host-Based Access Control
- HPC scheduler hardening (Slurm) and parallel filesystems (Lustre, NFS)
- Containerized workload security (Docker, Enroot, Kubernetes)
- High-speed fabric security (InfiniBand)
- Zero Trust and ZTNA architecture
- Advanced vulnerability management (CVSS 4.0, SBOM)