Senior Security Engineer, Offensive Security
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This role pays more than 99% of similar roles. Most pay $149,125–$203,125 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $290k versus about $176k for comparable roles.
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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
Nvidia currently has 896 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $184,000–$287,500 across 876 roles with salary data.
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Senior Offensive Security Engineer, Vulnerability Operations joins the Product Security organization to advance AI-driven offensive security capabilities. This role involves building and refining autonomous and semi-autonomous LLM agents that perform reconnaissance, hypothesis-driven exploitation, and evidence capture against internal targets. The engineer will expand existing agent harnesses across multiple runtimes, encode human tradecraft into prompts for web application, cloud, and Kubernetes attack paths, and develop verification layers to reduce false positives. Key responsibilities include engineering safety features like sandboxing and credential isolation while benchmarking frontier models for offensive tasks. Candidates must possess deep expertise in penetration testing, exploit development, or vulnerability research, alongside strong software engineering skills in Python. Required competencies include experience with LLM agent frameworks, tool use, and multi-agent orchestration to solve complex security challenges through automated, scalable offensive tooling.
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