Cybersecurity Analyst

Details

NVIDIA is seeking a cybersecurity analyst with deep expertise in incident response, forensic investigation, threat hunting, and proactive cyber defense. This role focuses on defending enterprise and product environments against advanced threats and conducting complex investigations across diverse platforms.

As part of the Cyber Defense & Response team, the analyst will detect, analyze, and respond to sophisticated attacks targeting NVIDIA's corporate, cloud, and product ecosystems. The role involves driving investigations, orchestrating automated responses, and strengthening security across infrastructure and products while collaborating with experts in security, data science, and AI.

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 in collaboration 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 with Security Engineering to accelerate detection and response.
• 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, operating system internals across Windows, Linux, and macOS, and web application security.
• Ability to detect abnormal behaviors and assess 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.

Compensation and Benefits

The base salary range is USD 160,000–258,750, determined by location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The role is also eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications will be accepted at least until September 4, 2026. This posting is for an existing vacancy. NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes and is an equal opportunity employer.