NVIDIA
Senior Software Engineer, Security
$184K–$356K
US, CA, Santa Clara +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
- Location
- US, CA, Santa Clara
US, CA, Remote - Experience
- 8+ yrs of relevant experience.
- Education
- BS in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Secures NVIDIA’s large-scale infrastructure, high-performance computing environments, and AI clusters by building security controls, managing risks and incidents, and improving resilient security practices.
What you'll do
- Develop incident response and disaster recovery plans, investigate incidents, and lead root-cause analysis.
- Harden systems with infrastructure teams and build and enforce security controls and policies for cluster infrastructure.
- Assess and report cybersecurity risks, support compliance and audit readiness, and train peers and users on security practices.
What they ask for
- Strong proficiency in C/C++ and experience programming secure computing environments.
- Linux kernel hardening (SELinux/AppArmor), observability (eBPF), and experience securing large-scale Linux infrastructure.
- Understanding of security risks, incident response, breach handling, and compute and networking systems security architectures.
- Experience securing AI agents using sandboxing technologies and AI-based threat detection (e.g. Mythos).
Nice to have
- Developing secure software in Rust, prioritizing memory safety.
- Experience with identity frameworks, Linux identity, HPC schedulers and storage, containerized workloads, high-speed fabric security, Zero Trust, or vulnerability and supply-chain mitigation.
Pay
184,000 USD - 287,500 USD base salary; 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD base salary
Tools
C/C++, Linux, SELinux, AppArmor, eBPF, Rust, OAuth 2.1, OIDC
AI focus
Securing AI agents with sandboxing technologies and AI-based threat detection.
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