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Senior Security Engineer, RTOS and Virtualization

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
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Hybrid (Remote / Local)$184k - $287.5kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Security Engineer focusing on RTOS, hypervisor, and embedded virtualization within NVIDIA DRIVE Software. Responsible for security engineering across design, implementation, review, and verification, with emphasis on automotive safety, security standards, and defense-in-depth for RTOS and virtualization technologies.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Qualifications

  • 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.

Skills

Required:RTOS securityHypervisor and virtualization securityC/C++Threat modelingSecurity testing & fuzzing

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Benefits package
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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