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Senior Offensive Security Engineer, Automotive

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
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Santa Clara, CA$184k - $287.5kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior engineer focused on offensive security for automotive systems, building automation and tooling to discover vulnerabilities in low-level components (OS kernels, Hypervisor, boot ROMs, firmware, hardware) and scaling findings into reusable security capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • Discover and evaluate vulnerabilities on source code and binaries, focusing on low-level technologies such as OS kernels, Hypervisor, boot ROMs, firmware, and hardware.
  • Develop and build automation to scale security work, including security pipelines, fuzzing infrastructure, AI-assisted vulnerability discovery, tools for automated code inspection, and code conversion.
  • Own tool development from prototype to production for use across the software organization.
  • Work closely with security researchers and engineers to automate and operationalize insights.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of hands on programming experience, particularly with C/C++. Python and memory safe language (e.g. Rust, Ada/SPARK) proficiency a plus.
  • B.S. or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field.
  • Strong low-level systems security background: OS internals, kernels, hypervisors, firmware, or hardware; analytical approach to dissecting software and identifying security flaws.
  • Experience with embedded software engineering. Deep understanding of foundational computer science concepts and security principles.
  • Experience building automated security tooling: fuzzers, sanitizers, static/dynamic analysis at the source and binary level.
  • Knowledge of current operating system architectures and security frameworks, with a particular focus on Linux.
  • Proven understanding of x86 and ARM architecture.
  • Hands-on experience developing and building agentic AI systems: multi-agent orchestration, tool-use pipelines, and applying them to automate security or engineering workflows.

Skills

Required:C/C++PythonOS internals/kernels/hypervisors/firmwareEmbedded softwareAutomated security toolingLinuxx86/ARM architectures
Nice to have:Rust/Ada/SPARKAgentic AI systemsSecurity research/CTF/bug bounty

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits (as listed on NVIDIA benefits page)
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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