NVIDIA
Intellectual Property Security Engineer
$184K–$356K
US, CA, Santa Clara +4 · Full-time · Posted Sep 1, 2026
- Location
- US, CA, Santa Clara
US, MA, Westford
US, TX, Austin
US, NC, Durham
US, MI, Remote - Experience
- 8+ years of experience. Preferred: 5+ years as a technical team lead bridging engineering, product, and customers.
- Education
- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Protects NVIDIA hardware intellectual property by helping engineering teams adopt secure workflows, policies, training, and infrastructure practices, and investigating threats to security integrity.
What you'll do
- Develop secure-by-default workflows and environments, training materials, security policies, and methodologies for engineering teams.
- Investigate threats and improve security practices in collaboration with Security, Hardware Engineering, and IT teams.
- Define priorities and schedules, communicate risks to senior management, and reduce security requirements’ impact on engineering productivity.
What they ask for
- Strong interpersonal skills and a focus on improving internal customers’ productivity and work experience.
- Experience leading high-performing technical teams across hardware engineering and/or information security, including cross-functional initiatives and mentoring.
- Strong threat-modeling experience, including data flows, trust boundaries, STRIDE-style analysis, and mitigations.
- Experience securing Linux-based on-prem or cloud infrastructure at scale; ability to prioritize practical risk reduction and present risks to senior management.
Nice to have
- Experience securing AI-assisted developer workflows, including connected CLIs, agent permissions, prompt injection, data leakage, and autonomous execution controls.
- Experience with security monitoring, audit logging, detection engineering, suspicious-activity investigations, or EDA, semiconductor design, or large-scale engineering/HPC environments.
Pay
184,000 USD - 287,500 USD base salary (Level 4); 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD base salary (Level 5)
Tools
Linux, STRIDE
AI focus
Preferred experience securing AI-assisted developer workflows, including connected CLIs, agent permissions, prompt injection, data leakage, and autonomous execution controls.
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