Senior Hardware Security Architect

We are now looking for a Senior Hardware Security Architect! NVIDIA is seeking an experienced Hardware Security Architect to architect, design, validate, and guide implementation of HW security for its core GPU products. You are expected to take a strong, hands-on approach to ensuring secure development and engineering practices across multiple internal teams by leading by example. Persons in this role will help reduce risk, threats, and vulnerabilities with a focus on hardware and firmware layers; including considerations for safely scaling up GPUs in data center environments.

What you'll be doing:

• Collaborate between multiple business units and development groups to ensure robust, secure service posture from design to implementation in multiple products.

• Perform security reviews of firmware and hardware designs and assist others to ensure quality and robustness of our products.

• Recommend best practices for secure service development driving continuous improvement in the engineering organization. Including mentoring, developing and delivering training materials, producing frameworks to reduce best practice patterns to application for use in production efforts.

• Define architectural and micro-architectural details for features that improve security of our GPUs.

• Drive implementation and verification of hardware features that improve security of our GPUs.

• You will collaborate to develop a long-term security roadmap for our products to ensure suitability for the markets we serve.

What we need to see:

• A Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering.

• 7+ years of relevant hardware development experience with a focus and interest in hardware security.

• Deep understanding of processor architectures (GPU is a plus), caches and memory systems.

• Proficiency in Verilog RTL coding and scripting languages, such as: Perl, Python and Make etc.

• A working understanding of floor-planning, ASIC physical design, VLSI and DFT.

• A hands on technical background; excellent C programming and low-level firmware experience.

• Strong communication skills are required along with the ability to work in a dynamic product oriented team.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Familiarity with kernel level security concepts.

• Experience with security testing techniques, threat modeling, fuzzing, negative testing and other techniques. Background with micro architectural attacks (side channels, fault injection, etc).

• Experience with HW level applications of cryptography; secure boot, key management, etc.

Our invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world. Today, we are increasingly known as “the AI computing company”. With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We employ some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world. If you're creative, autonomous and love a challenge, we want to hear from you!

The base salary range is 184,000 USD - 356,500 USD. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits. NVIDIA accepts applications on an ongoing basis.

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.