Senior Software Security Researcher

About the Role

NVIDIA Networking product security team is looking for an outstanding technical Senior Software Security Researcher with hands-on experience to help us improve the security posture of NVIDIA networking software. In this role, you will help reduce risk, threats, and vulnerabilities in NVIDIA networking products.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Be involved in offensive security research on a wide range of products.
• Assist with defining and making sure software development processes meet security and coding standards.
• Perform security threat modeling for NVIDIA Networking products.
• Design and make security architecture recommendations to satisfy security guidelines and requirements.
• Mentor teams and developers, promoting guidelines on the best security practices.
• Be a technical focal point across multiple development teams and provide hands-on security engineering expertise.

What We Need To See

• Academic degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated experience of 3+ years in security research.
• Familiarity with applied cryptography, threat modeling, common attack vectors, and mitigation techniques.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a constantly evolving environment.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd

• M.Sc. or PhD in computer science, electrical engineering, or related technical field.
• Familiarity with the cloud environment security ecosystem.
• Experience with high-scale deployment challenges.
• Demonstrated security research experience and publications.

Key skills/competency

• Offensive Security
• Threat Modeling
• Applied Cryptography
• Security Architecture
• Vulnerability Management
• Network Security
• Software Development Security
• Security Engineering
• Cloud Security
• Risk Mitigation