NVIDIA
Senior Offensive Security Engineer, Automotive
$184K–$356K
US, CA, Santa Clara · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of hands-on programming experience.
- Education
- B.S. or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field.
About the job
Finds vulnerabilities in automotive low-level systems and builds production-ready automation to scale security testing and discovery.
What you'll do
- Assess source code and binaries for vulnerabilities in kernels, hypervisors, boot ROMs, firmware, and hardware.
- Build and own security tooling from prototype to production, including pipelines, fuzzing infrastructure, automated code inspection, and code conversion.
- Work with security researchers and engineers to develop reusable security capabilities, including AI-assisted vulnerability discovery.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of hands-on programming experience, particularly with C/C++.
- B.S. or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field.
- Background in low-level systems security and embedded software engineering; experience building automated security tooling.
- Experience developing agentic AI systems and applying them to automate security or engineering workflows.
Nice to have
- CTF participation, bug bounty contributions, published security research, or personal software projects.
- Experience with formal methods or memory-safe languages; RISC-V knowledge.
Pay
184,000 USD - 287,500 USD (base salary, Level 4); 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD (base salary, Level 5)
Tools
C/C++, Python, Rust, Ada/SPARK, Linux, x86, ARM, RISC-V
AI focus
Develop AI-assisted vulnerability discovery and agentic AI systems using multi-agent orchestration and tool-use pipelines to automate security or engineering workflows.
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