Distinguished Engineer, AI Safety and Security Engineering

Nvidia

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Work type: Remote
Location: Remote
Salary: $320,000–$488,750 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 23 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday

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Nvidia is a leading designer of graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-chip units, powering gaming, professional visualization, data centers, and artificial intelligence workloads. Industry: Semiconductors & AI Computing

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TL;DR · Distinguished Engineer, AI Safety and Security Engineering

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As the Distinguished Engineer, AI Safety and Security Engineering, you will serve as the founding technical leader for a newly assembled team focused on building AI-powered tooling to discover, validate, and patch software vulnerabilities. You will take full ownership of the core harness architecture, establish engineering standards, and guide the roadmap from early prototypes into production pipelines. Your daily work involves bridging exploratory research with rigorous software engineering while mentoring founding engineers and reviewing designs across the organization. The role requires deep expertise in distributed systems, machine learning pipelines, or large-scale platforms to ensure safety-critical AI system reliability. Key technical areas include vulnerability research, security engineering, agent frameworks, LLM-based tooling, and building evaluation or benchmarking infrastructure. You will solve critical problems regarding cybersecurity defense by creating dependable architectures for the detection and mitigation of software flaws.

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