Senior Security Engineer, RTOS and Virtualization

Nvidia

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Work type: Remote
Location: Santa Clara, CAAustin, TXHillsboro, ORRedmond, WA
Salary: $184,000–$287,500 / yr
Posted: 31 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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This role $236k

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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 · Senior Security Engineer, RTOS and Virtualization

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As a Senior Security Engineer, RTOS and Virtualization, you will join the Hypervisor and RTOS Team to lead security engineering for real-time operating systems, hypervisors, and embedded virtualization technologies. You will manage the design, implementation, review, and verification of these systems while collaborating on CPU and SoC architecture including memory protection, DMA, interrupts, boot flows, and hardware isolation. Your daily work involves building defensive features like strong partitioning, secure communication, and fault containment, alongside performing threat modeling and automotive TARA to meet safety standards. You will utilize C/C++ for low-level code review and develop fuzzing and security test infrastructure. The role addresses critical security and safety requirements for autonomous vehicles by ensuring resource separation and protection within high-reliability systems using technologies like MMU, SMMU, IOMMU, and various automotive cybersecurity standards.

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Skills

RTOS Hypervisor C C++ Rust Ada/SPARK Firmware Kernel Fuzzing Threat Modeling ISO/SAE 21434 ISO 26262 UN R155 Automotive SPICE SoC Architecture Memory Safety Dynamic Analysis

What you'll do

Lead security engineering for RTOS, hypervisor, and embedded virtualization technologies across design, implementation, and verification.
Collaborate on CPU and SoC architecture including memory protection, boot flows, and hardware isolation.
Implement defensive features such as strong partitioning, least-privilege access, and secure communication.
Perform threat modeling and automotive TARA to align risks with security and safety standards.
Review low-level C/C++ code to identify vulnerabilities and drive fixes into production.
Build fuzzing and security test infrastructure to validate system integrity.
Ensure compliance with automotive cybersecurity and safety standards like ISO/SAE 21434 and ISO 26262.

What we're looking for

8+ years of hands-on experience in systems, embedded, platform, product, or automotive security.
BSEE/BSCS degree or equivalent experience.
Experience securing RTOS, hypervisor, kernel, firmware, boot, driver, or other privileged software.
Strong C/C++ skills with a focus on memory safety, concurrency, resource ownership, privilege boundaries, and isolation.
Familiarity with CPU and SoC security concepts including MMU/SMMU or IOMMU, DMA, interrupts, boot, debug, and hardware-backed isolation.
Experience with threat modeling, vulnerability analysis, exploitability assessment, fuzzing, static or dynamic analysis, and security remediation.
Familiarity with automotive cybersecurity, safety, or process standards such as ISO/SAE 21434, UN R155, ISO 26262 interfaces, or Automotive SPICE.
Experience with Rust, Ada/SPARK, formal methods, capability-based models, or security automation tools (preferred).

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