Cyber Security Engineer

Details

NVIDIA is seeking a cybersecurity professional with deep expertise in incident response, forensic investigation, threat hunting, and proactive cyber defense. As part of the Cyber Defense & Response team, this role will help detect, analyze, and respond to sophisticated attacks targeting NVIDIA’s corporate, cloud, and product ecosystems. The role involves collaborating with experts in security, data science, and AI to advance product security technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead incident response efforts for corporate, cloud, and product environments, including investigation, containment, eradication, and recovery.
• Perform threat hunting across endpoints, networks, and cloud workloads to identify indicators of compromise, emerging threats, and control gaps.
• Conduct cloud incident response for AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, containerized workloads, and other cloud environments, including log analysis, identity compromise investigations, and workload forensics.
• Drive product security incident response and collaborate with engineering teams to analyze potential exposure to vulnerabilities, exploits, and security flaws in NVIDIA products.
• Perform digital forensics and malware analysis to support investigations and root-cause analysis.
• Develop and optimize security orchestration and automation playbooks in partnership with Security Engineering.
• Build and refine detections and defense strategies based on threat models and attacker behaviors across cloud, identity, endpoint, and product telemetry.
• Use frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK to map adversary tactics and improve detection coverage.
• Advise engineering and business teams on secure design and incident-handling standards.
• Contribute to security policies, standards, and metrics to continuously improve NVIDIA’s security posture.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience in incident response and threat hunting, including cloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security principles, identity and access management, and workload protection.
• Experience with product security investigations, vulnerability analysis, and secure coding practices.
• Proficiency in forensic analysis, intrusion detection, and threat intelligence.
• Advanced knowledge of network analysis, Windows/Linux/macOS operating system internals, and web application security, including detecting abnormal behavior and assessing exploit paths.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively across global teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications such as GCIH, GCFA, AWS Security Specialty, Azure Security Specialty, or CISSP.
• Experience with cloud-native security tools such as AWS GuardDuty, Azure Sentinel, and GCP Security Command Center.
• Development experience in Python, Go, or similar languages for building security automation.
• Hands-on experience with container security, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and AI security.
• Advanced knowledge of digital forensics and malware reverse engineering.

Benefits

The role includes eligibility for equity and benefits. NVIDIA is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive work environment.

Applications will be accepted at least until October 31, 2026. This posting is for an existing vacancy. NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.