Distinguished Engineer, Security Architecture

Nvidia

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Work type
Remote
Location
WA
Salary
$320,000–$488,750 / yr
Posted
3 days ago
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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, Security Architecture

As the Distinguished Engineer, Security Architecture - DGX Cloud, you will join the Security Engineering organization to establish and maintain the security design standards for a large-scale GPU fleet. You will define reference architectures, golden paths, and requirements for multi-tenant isolation, identity, supply chain provenance, and workload security across the entire stack from hardware root of trust to high-level APIs. This hands-on role involves embedding with engineering teams to build hardened baselines, manage patch SLOs, and implement detection systems tailored for GPU workloads. You will lead a team of Principal Engineers while serving as the primary technical interface to NVIDIA’s central security organization. Required expertise includes distributed systems, Kubernetes, Linux kernel primitives, threat modeling, and production-grade coding. The role addresses critical infrastructure challenges involving high-performance computing environments and large-scale cloud platform security.

What you'll do

  • Define and implement the security design standards for multi-tenant GPU workloads and cloud infrastructure.
  • Develop reference architectures and "golden paths" to provide actionable requirements for engineering teams.
  • Embed with engineering teams to write code, review designs, and help ship secure products.
  • Architect long-term security infrastructure including hardened baselines, supply-chain provenance, and detection systems.
  • Eliminate recurring risks by addressing them at their architectural roots rather than through manual fixes.
  • Lead and mentor a team of Principal Engineers by setting technical direction and managing growth.
  • Serve as the primary technical liaison between DGX Cloud and NVIDIA’s central security organization.
  • Communicate and document security gaps to executive leadership to ensure visibility of high-level risks.

What we're looking for

  • Experience of typically 20+ years in software engineering, infrastructure, and security for large-scale distributed or cloud platforms.
  • Proven record owning the end-to-end security architecture of a large platform including multi-tenant isolation, identity, and supply chain.
  • Ability to write, ship, and operate production services at scale while reading unfamiliar code to identify security flaws.
  • Experience of typically 7+ years leading and growing senior technical talent and principal engineers.
  • Expertise in cloud-native architecture, Kubernetes, Linux systems security, and high-throughput multi-tenant environments.
  • Ability to build consensus and communicate complex risk profiles to executive leadership.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
  • A BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering with at least 18 years of practical engineering experience is also accepted.
  • Experience securing HPC environments, RDMA networks, or large GPU fleets (preferred).
  • Experience building a security architecture practice from the ground up (preferred).
  • Depth in attestation, TPM/HSM integration, confidential computing, or workload identity frameworks (preferred).
  • Notable contributions to security-focused open source, standards work, or research (preferred).

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