Senior Security Engineer, RTOS and Virtualization

Details

NVIDIA's DRIVE Software Hypervisor and RTOS Team develops hypervisor and real-time operating system technologies for highly reliable autonomous vehicle systems, with a focus on resource sharing, real-time performance, safety, and security.

Responsibilities

• Lead security engineering for RTOS, hypervisor, and embedded virtualization technologies across design, implementation, review, and verification.
• Collaborate on CPU and SoC architecture, including privilege levels, memory protection, DMA, interrupts, boot flows, debug controls, and hardware isolation.
• Build and implement defensive features such as strong partitioning, least-privilege access, secure communication, fault containment, secure updates, and recovery from malicious inputs.
• Perform threat modeling and automotive TARA, connecting risks, mitigations, requirements, tests, and evidence to security and safety standards.
• Review low-level C/C++ code, investigate vulnerabilities, build fuzzing and security test infrastructure, and drive fixes into production.

Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in systems, embedded, platform, product, or automotive security.
• BSEE, BSCS, 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience driving adoption of Rust, Ada/SPARK, formal methods, or other memory-safe and analyzable systems approaches.
• Experience building capability-based or ownership-based security models for low-level systems.
• Experience building security automation, fuzzing infrastructure, review agents, or AI-assisted tools used by engineering teams.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary range of $184,000–$287,500 USD for Level 4.
• Base salary range of $224,000–$356,500 USD for Level 5.
• Eligibility for equity and benefits.
• Applications will be accepted at least until August 15, 2026.
• NVIDIA is an equal opportunity employer.