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Distinguished Engineer, AI Safety and Security Engineering

NVIDIA· Distinguished Engineer
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Santa Clara, CA, Remote$320k - $488.8kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Founding technical leader for NVIDIA's AI Safety & Security Engineering team. Owns core harness architecture and baseline engineering standards, guiding the program from prototype to production, bridging exploratory research and software engineering, with emphasis on mentorship and shaping secure AI systems.

Responsibilities

  • Architecture: Define the canonical harness architecture and component baseline.
  • Engineering standards: Set the engineering standards the team builds on.
  • Technical roadmap: Guide the Find, Validate, and Patch technical roadmap.
  • Mentorship: Mentor founding engineers and support their growth.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) with 18+ years designing and building complex systems.
  • Architecture depth: Deep experience architecting distributed systems, ML pipelines, or large-scale platforms.
  • Research to production: A record of turning research into production-grade engineering.
  • Collaboration: Ability to align engineers and researchers on one technical direction.

Skills

Required:Architecture designResearch to production

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Benefits (as listed in company materials)
Last updated Sep 18, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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