NVIDIA
Distinguished Engineer, AI Safety and Security Engineering
$320K–$489K
US, CA, Santa Clara +5 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 11, 2026
- Location
- US, CA, Santa Clara
US, NC, Remote
US, NY, Remote
US, TN, Remote
US, FL, Remote
US, CA, Remote - Experience
- 18+ years designing and building complex systems.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience).
About the job
Lead the architecture, engineering standards, and technical roadmap for AI-powered tooling that discovers, validates, and patches software vulnerabilities.
What you'll do
- Define the canonical harness architecture and component baseline, and set engineering standards.
- Guide the Find, Validate, and Patch technical roadmap from prototypes to a production pipeline.
- Mentor founding engineers and collaborate with engineering, security, and evaluation teams.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- Deep experience architecting distributed systems, ML pipelines, or large-scale platforms.
- Record of turning research into production-grade engineering.
- Ability to align engineers and researchers on one technical direction.
Nice to have
- Vulnerability research or security engineering experience.
- Familiarity with agent frameworks or LLM-based tooling; experience building evaluation or benchmarking infrastructure.
Pay
320,000 USD - 488,750 USD (base salary)
Tools
AI, distributed systems, ML pipelines, agent frameworks, LLM-based tooling
AI focus
Lead engineering for AI-powered vulnerability discovery, validation, and patching tools, including safety-critical AI systems and their evaluation.
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