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Principal Hardware Security Architect, Advanced Technologies and Threat Modeling

NVIDIA· Architect
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Hybrid (Santa Clara, CA), Hybrid (Remote, US)$272k - $431.3kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior individual contributor shaping security architecture for NVIDIA’s next-generation SoCs and GPUs with focus on advanced packaging, connectivity, and physical attack vectors; collaborates across hardware, software, research, and marketing to define roadmaps and mitigate hardware security threats.

Responsibilities

  • Define Security Roadmap: 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.
  • Physical Security & Standards: Research, design, and develop architecture solutions that provide mitigations against physical attacks, including fault injection and side-channel attacks. Drive the adoption of and compliance with industry standards such as the Open Compute Project (OCP) S.A.F.E. program, ensuring our firmware and hardware supply chain meets rigorous assurance requirements.
  • Advanced Packaging & Photonics Threat Modeling: Analyze and develop threat models for new technologies, including advanced packaging (2.5D/3D ICs, chiplets) and silicon photonics connectivity. Investigate vulnerabilities such as hardware Trojans in multi-chiplet photonic neural network accelerators, inter-chiplet side-channel analysis, and threats to optical on-chip networks.
  • AI-Accelerated Discovery: Employ AI and other new tools to accelerate the discovery and triage of hardware vulnerabilities. Leverage AI systems to uncover deep, previously invisible flaws at scale and shift from manual triage to AI-driven direction. Lead the evaluation of AI-assisted hardware security verification methodologies and autonomous research agents for fuzzing GPU kernel drivers.
  • Architecture & Verification: Review architectural, microarchitectural, and verification specifications published by internal teams to ensure all IPs align with platform security requirements. Work with customers and partners to identify and address security issues and threats.

Qualifications

  • MS, or PhD (or equivalent experience) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering.
  • 15+ 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.
  • Deep understanding of SoC security architecture, including secure/measured boot and ARM or RISCV CPU architectures.
  • Direct experience with security mitigations against physical attacks including fault injection and side-channel attacks.
  • Knowledge of security threat modeling and penetration testing.
  • Familiarity with OCP S.A.F.E. or similar industry security frameworks.
  • Soft Skills: The ability to work in a dynamic, customer-focused team with strong interpersonal skills.

Skills

Required:Security threat modelingPhysical security mitigationsOpen Compute Project S.A.F.E.ASIC/SoC/GPU architectureProgramming languages

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Benefits (see company benefits page)
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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