NVIDIA
Senior Security Research Architect, Confidential Computing
$224K–$431K
US, CA, Santa Clara +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Location
- US, CA, Santa Clara
US, CA, Remote - Experience
- 12+ years of relevant experience.
- Education
- MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads hands-on design and implementation of Trusted Execution Environment and Confidential Computing architectures for NVIDIA NIC and DPU products.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, model, and validate security architectures and platform solutions that meet security requirements and standards.
- Guide Confidential Computing design across hardware, software, research, and product teams; work with customers and partners to address threats.
- Extend the CJDNS networking protocol and bind it with fully distributed key management.
What they ask for
- MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Firsthand hardware- and software-level experience with Trusted Execution Technologies such as AMD SEV, Intel TDX, or Intel SGX.
- Direct experience with platform security and threat mitigation or TEE isolation; profiling and modeling isolation architectures; secure-systems performance evaluation; and attestation methods for overlay mesh networks.
- Programming and debugging fundamentals across languages such as Verilog, Python/Perl scripting, ARM assembly, and C/C++; understanding of secure device management over MCTP and programming interfaces.
Pay
224,000 USD - 356,500 USD base salary (Level 5); 272,000 USD - 431,250 USD base salary (Level 6)
Tools
AMD SEV, Intel TDX, Intel SGX, Verilog, Python/Perl, ARM assembly, C/C++, MCTP
AI focus
NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes; no AI development work is stated for the role.
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