NVIDIA

Senior AI Security Engineer

$184K–$356K

US, WA, Seattle +5 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026

Location: US, WA, Seattle
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Experience: 8+ years in software engineering, security engineering, or related areas, including hands-on technical leadership.
Education: Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field.

About the job

Builds and advances AI cybersecurity software, turning research prototypes into production-ready tools and services for secure agent use.

Develop cybersecurity tooling for AI, including reusable skills, CLI tools, APIs, and integrations.
Prototype and validate solutions to security and identity problems, then evolve them into production-ready services.
Collaborate with research, product, security, and platform teams to align software architecture with real workflows.

Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field.
8+ years in software engineering, security engineering, or related areas, including hands-on technical leadership.
Strong software engineering skills building backend services, APIs, automation, or platform components; experience with multi-contributor and long-running software projects.
Familiarity with agents, AI tooling and architectures, plus offensive security, adversarial thinking, red teaming, or attack-path analysis.

Deep familiarity with open-source projects and their community, workflow, and governance.
Experience with agentic or AI-adjacent systems and understanding of AI-specific security risks.

184,000 USD - 287,500 USD base salary (Level 4); 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD base salary (Level 5)

CLI tools, APIs

Develops AI cybersecurity tools and secure agent approaches; advances research code into products and builds agent-related integrations.

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First seen Oct 20, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)