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Senior Firmware Security Architect, Networking

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Hybrid (Remote / Local), Austin, TX, Seattle, WA$184k - $287.5k + equityFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Technical security architect for NVIDIA Networking, focusing on secure firmware architecture, threat modeling, and secure development practices across firmware, hardware, and ASIC interfaces.

Responsibilities

  • Be involved in the security architecture of NVIDIA Networking firmware — trust boundaries, privilege separation between firmware domains, device identity and key storage, secure boot and chain of trust, and secure update and anti-rollback flows.
  • Perform security threat modeling of firmware and embedded subsystems across NVIDIA Networking products.
  • Analyze complex firmware and hardware/firmware interactions to identify security weaknesses, including boot flows, privileged execution environments, and host- and network-facing management interfaces.
  • Define security features and mitigations spanning the full device lifecycle — provisioning, attestation, debug authorization, runtime hardening, and field update. Guide the engineering teams throughout the implementation.
  • Translate threat models into actionable security requirements and architectural decisions, and review designs and implementations against them.
  • Partner with hardware and ASIC architects to specify the security primitives firmware depends on, and define how they are used across the product line.
  • Drive secure development practices for firmware — memory-safe coding patterns in C, static analysis, and fuzzing of firmware-exposed interfaces — and make sure development processes meet security and coding standards.

Qualifications

  • Academic degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
  • Demonstrated experience of 8+ years in product security, firmware security, or security research, including hands-on work with embedded or firmware codebases.
  • Experience defining security policy models — authorization schemes, RBAC, and administrative role separation — including how policy is expressed, enforced, and administered in production.
  • Familiarity with applied cryptography (including secure boot, code signing, and attestation), threat modeling, common attack vectors, and mitigation techniques.
  • Ability to work independently, and collaboratively in a constantly evolving environment.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Skills

Required:Security architectureThreat modelingFirmware securityCryptographyPolicy models (RBAC, authorization)

Benefits

  • equity
  • comprehensive benefits package
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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