NVIDIA
Distinguished Engineer, Security Architecture - DGX Cloud
$320K–$489K
US, WA, Remote · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 11, 2026
- Experience
- Typically 20+ years in software engineering, infrastructure, and security; typically 7+ years leading senior technical talent. The posting also specifies a minimum of 18+ years of practical engineering experience as an alternative to the listed degree.
- Education
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent experience.
About the job
Set and implement DGX Cloud’s security architecture and standards across its AI factory platform, while leading Principal Engineers and partnering with engineering and security teams.
What you'll do
- Define security standards, reference architectures, and buildable requirements across tenancy, GPU workloads, identity, supply chain, and isolation.
- Design shared fleet security infrastructure and work hands-on with engineering teams to build it and address systemic risks.
- Lead and grow Principal Engineers, collaborate with NVIDIA’s central security organization, and communicate security gaps and risks to executives.
What they ask for
- Typically 20+ years across software engineering, infrastructure, and security, with recent experience securing large-scale distributed or cloud platforms.
- Proven ownership of end-to-end security architecture for a large platform, including multi-tenant isolation, identity and access, policy enforcement, supply chain, and detection.
- Production coding and operating experience at scale; depth in cloud-native architecture, Kubernetes, Linux systems security, and threat modeling complex distributed systems.
- Typically 7+ years leading and growing senior technical talent; bachelor's degree in a related technical field or equivalent experience.
Nice to have
- Experience securing HPC environments, RDMA-based networks, large GPU fleets, or GPU-specific systems.
- Experience establishing a security architecture practice, hardware-root-of-trust or workload-identity depth, or notable open-source, standards, or security-research contributions.
Pay
320,000 USD - 488,750 USD (base salary)
Tools
Kubernetes, Linux, RDMA, TPM/HSM
AI focus
Securing an AI factory and GPU workloads; evaluating AI-generated code, AI-assisted security analysis, and agents acting inside defended systems. NVIDIA also uses AI tools in recruiting.
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