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Senior Security Architect - Hardware

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Santa Clara, CA, Austin, TX, Hillsboro, OR, Durham, NC, Redmond, WA$184k - $287.5kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior technical leader responsible for defining and guiding the HW Root of Trust architecture for NVIDIA SoCs and GPUs, with hands-on collaboration across hardware, software, research, and marketing to meet security requirements for client, automotive, gaming, and server platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate across the company to guide the direction of platform security and develop a long-term roadmap for a flexible HW Root of Trust solution integrated into products, working with hardware, software, research and marketing teams.
  • Research, design, and develop architecture solutions meeting internal and external security requirements and standards.
  • Review architectural, microarchitectural and verification specifications published by internal teams to ensure all IPs align with platform security requirements.
  • Work with customers, partners to identify and address security issues and threats.

Qualifications

  • BS, MS, PhD (or equivalent experience) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
  • 8+ years of meaningful relevant work or research experience.
  • Experience with the ASIC design process and architecture of large SoCs or GPUs.
  • Programming and debugging fundamentals across languages such as: C/C++, Verilog, ARM assembly and Python/Perl scripting
  • The ability to work in a dynamic customer focused team and strong communication skills are required.
  • System architecture for mobile, automotive, gaming or server platforms
  • SoC security architecture and security fundamentals including secure boot, measured boot and HW root of trust
  • ARM or RISCV CPU architectures and related security functionality
  • Cryptography: algorithms, standards, implementation and application
  • Security mitigations against physical attacks including fault injection and side channel attacks
  • Remote attestation mechanisms based on TPM or other solutions
  • Digital Rights Management (DRM) standards
  • Security threat modelling and penetration testing
  • Certification standards and compliance testing

Skills

Required:HW Root of TrustSystem architectureSecurity fundamentalsCryptographyThreat modelling and penetration testing

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits (see link)
Last updated Jul 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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