Senior Manager, AI Safety and Security Engineering

Nvidia

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Work type
Remote
Location
Santa Clara, CATXTNCOFL
Salary
$272,000–$431,250 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
2 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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Above market

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About Nvidia

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 · Senior Manager, AI Safety and Security Engineering

As the Senior Manager, AI Safety and Security Engineering, you will join the AI Safety & Security Engineering team to build and lead a new engineering group from its first hires. You will be responsible for hiring, coaching, and growing a founding team across harness and platform engineering, security research, and evaluation disciplines. Your daily work involves managing the Find, Validate, and Patch roadmap while collaborating with leadership in evaluation, security, and platform areas to ensure sustainable delivery. The role requires expertise in software engineering, distributed infrastructure, machine learning platforms, or security tooling. You will navigate ambiguity to define new programs while making technical trade-offs regarding architecture and evaluation in ML or systems software. This position focuses on developing AI-powered tools designed to find, validate, and patch software vulnerabilities within the critical domain of cybersecurity.

What you'll do

  • Hire, coach, and grow the founding engineering team across harness, platform, and security research disciplines.
  • Lead the execution of the Find, Validate, and Patch engineering roadmap for AI-powered tooling.
  • Manage the development of tools to find, validate, and patch software vulnerabilities.
  • Coordinate with evaluation, security, and platform leadership to align technical goals.
  • Communicate clear and honest engineering status updates across the organization in plain language.
  • Make visible trade-offs regarding architecture and evaluation for ML or systems software.
  • Define processes and infrastructure for a new program in an ambiguous, early-stage environment.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in software engineering.
  • 12+ years of experience in software engineering.
  • 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams.
  • Experience guiding teams that build complex systems like distributed infrastructure, ML platforms, or security tooling.
  • Ability to weigh architecture and evaluation trade-offs in ML or systems software.
  • Experience growing new teams from their earliest stage (preferred).
  • Exposure to vulnerability research or security programs (preferred).
  • Experience with teams building ML infrastructure or agents (preferred).

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