Principal Security Architect, Agent Policy Fabric

Nvidia

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Work type
Remote
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Salary
$272,000–$431,250 / yr
Posted
10 days ago
Nearby
99+ roles within 25 mi

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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 · Principal Security Architect, Agent Policy Fabric

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As a Principal Security Architect at NVIDIA’s Cloud Engineering & Services team, you will lead the cross-company security architecture for agentic AI, focusing on enterprise agent governance through Agent Policy Fabric. Your daily tasks include defining reference architectures for governed agent actions, translating architectural concepts into practical standards and roadmaps, aligning various organizational stakeholders to ensure ownership of control surfaces, establishing review patterns for secure workflows, and representing NVIDIA’s agent security posture to senior leaders and partner teams. The role requires expertise in security architecture, agentic AI risks, enterprise control design, and large-scale security programs, with a strong background in cloud security, identity management, and policy governance tools such as OPA/Rego and OAuth/OIDC.

Skills

Agent Policy Fabric OPA/Rego OAuth/OIDC SAML workload identity delegated authorization signed configuration enterprise trust-root distribution Kubernetes CI/CD Prometheus Grafana PostgreSQL AWS Azure Google Cloud Platform

What you'll do

  • Lead the definition of cross-company reference architecture for governed agent actions.
  • Translate Agent Policy Fabric concepts into executive-ready decision papers and engineering standards.
  • Align cross-organization owners to define control surfaces and workflow transitions.
  • Establish review patterns for agent workflows, including policy authoring and runtime admission.
  • Brief senior leaders on NVIDIA's agent security posture and maturation path.

What we're looking for

  • 15+ years of industry experience in security architecture and related fields.
  • Proven leadership in ambiguous, cross-functional security initiatives across various teams.
  • Practical understanding of agentic AI risks and governance requirements.
  • Experience designing enterprise controls for identity, authorization, policy, secrets management, and network egress.
  • Ability to communicate complex security architectures effectively to both executives and engineering teams.
  • Track record of driving large-scale security programs across multiple business units.
  • Familiarity with advanced policy and identity systems like OPA/Rego and OAuth/OIDC.

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