Senior Security Engineer, RTOS and Virtualization

NVIDIA is hiring a Senior Security Engineer, RTOS and Virtualization in Santa Clara, United States. It pays $184k-$288k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on NVIDIA.

Level's read on this job

Little AI ●○○○ is how Level rates this cybersecurity role: aI is not part of the work.
The listed pay starts 16% above the typical cybersecurity posting on Level.
Level classifies it as a senior role.
Level lists 2,600+ other open roles at NVIDIA.

AI in this role

NVIDIA is a leading artificial intelligence computing company, and we are paving the way with innovations in self-driving cars, machine learning, supercomputing, gaming, and visualization. We give automakers, tier-1 suppliers, automotive research institutions, and start-ups the power and flexibility to develop and deploy breakthrough artificial intelligence systems for self-driving vehicles. Our unified computing architecture enables training deep neural networks in the data center, and then seamlessly runs them on NVIDIA DRIVE Platforms inside the vehicle.

Within NVIDIA DRIVE Software, the Hypervisor and RTOS Team contributes significantly to NVIDIA's advancement in artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles. Our mission is to manage system resource sharing and separation while fulfilling real-time, safety, and security needs. We design Hypervisor and RTOS focusing on automotive quality, safety, and security required by the real-time, highly reliable system parts of leading Autonomous Vehicles. We are hiring now for the position of Senior Security Engineer, RTOS and Virtualization

What you’ll be doing:

Lead security engineering for RTOS, hypervisor, and embedded virtualization technologies across design, implementation, review, and verification.
Collaborate on CPU and SoC architecture, including privilege levels, memory protection, DMA, interrupts, boot flows, debug controls, and hardware isolation.
Build and implement defensive features such as strong partitioning, least-privilege access, secure communication, fault containment, secure updates, and recovery from malicious inputs.
Perform threat modeling and automotive TARA, and connect risks, mitigations, requirements, tests, and evidence to security and safety standards.
Review low-level C/C++ code, investigate vulnerabilities, build fuzzing and security test infrastructure, and drive fixes into production.

What we need to see:

8+ years of hands-on experience in systems, embedded, platform, product, or automotive security.
BSEE/ BSCS degree or equivalent experience
Experience securing RTOS, hypervisor, kernel, firmware, boot, driver, or other privileged software.
Strong C/C++ skills, with focus on memory safety, concurrency, resource ownership, privilege boundaries, and isolation.
Familiarity with CPU and SoC security concepts including MMU/SMMU or IOMMU, DMA, interrupts, boot, debug, and hardware-backed isolation.
Experience with threat modeling, vulnerability analysis, exploitability assessment, fuzzing, static or dynamic analysis, and security remediation.
Familiarity with automotive cybersecurity, safety, or process standards such as ISO/SAE 21434, UN R155, ISO 26262 interfaces, or Automotive SPICE.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

Drove adoption of Rust, Ada/SPARK, formal methods, or other memory-safe and analyzable systems approaches.
Built capability-based or ownership-based security models for low-level systems.
Built security automation, fuzzing infrastructure, review agents, or AI-assisted tools used by engineering teams.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and other objective job-related factors. The expected base salary ranges for this position are:
184,000 USD – 287,500 USD for Level 4; and 224,000 USD – 356,500 USD for Level 5.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until November 3, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive 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.

How we rate this

Senior Security Engineer, RTOS and Virtualization at NVIDIA rates 17 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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