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Senior Hardware Security Architect

NVIDIA· Architect
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Santa Clara, CA$184k - $356.5kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior hardware security architect responsible for defining, crafting, and guiding security architecture for NVIDIA's SoCs and GPUs, collaborating across hardware, software, research, and marketing to meet security requirements for mobile, automotive, gaming, and server platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate across the company to guide the direction of platform security and develop a long-term security roadmap for our 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 comply 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 with strong interpersonal skills are required.
  • Experience with / exposure to: System architecture for Gaming, Automotive, Server or AI platforms and Cryptography: algorithms, standards, implementation and application; SoC security architecture and security fundamentals including secure boot or measured boot and ARM or RISCV CPU architectures and related security functionality; Security mitigations against physical attacks including fault injection and side channel attacks; Remote attestation mechanisms based on TPM or other solutions and Digital Rights Management (DRM) standards; Security threat modelling and penetration testing and Certification standards and compliance testing

Skills

Required:Security architectureASIC/SoC designProgrammingSecurity concepts
Nice to have:Threat modelling & testing

Benefits

  • equity
  • base salary and benefits per company policy
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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