Senior Security Firmware Engineer – Data Center Systems

at Nvidia

📍 Santa Clara, United States

$148,000-276,000 per year

SENIOR
✅ On-site

SCRAPED

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences ?

Security @ 4 Software Development @ 4 CI/CD @ 4 Communication @ 4 Rust @ 6 Audit @ 4

Details

NVIDIA is leading the way in groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing and Visualization. The GPU, our invention, serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is at the heart of our products and services. NVIDIA is searching for a highly motivated, creative engineer with experience in system software security to join the Server Platform Software team. In this role, you will focus on securing the management plane for NVIDIA’s Data Center Systems, such as NVIDIA HGX, DGX, and MGX.

Responsibilities

  • Designing, developing, and testing firmware to secure AI Data Center Systems
  • Designing, implementing, and delivering security innovations for AI Data Center Systems
  • Collaborating with hardware, software, and business teams to transform new firmware features from idea to reality

Requirements

  • BS or MS degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related degree (or equivalent experience)
  • 5+ years of meaningful software and firmware engineering experience
  • Excellent C/C++ programming and low-level firmware development experience
  • Experience with ARM or RISC-V based system software development
  • Familiarity with ARM or RISC-V security and privilege modes, such as ARM TrustZone
  • Excellent comprehension of security fundamentals
  • Background with software development lifecycle standard methodologies, e.g. threat modeling, unit testing, incident response, code audit, CI/CD, and more
  • Effective written and verbal communication regardless of audience or issue complexity. Ability to work collaboratively and remotely with others to accomplish complex goals

Ways to stand out from the crowd

  • Experience in developing: Root of Trust subsystems and required cryptographic value-adds, OP-TEE Trusted Applications (TA), and interaction with REE & TEE, system software and drivers to interact with SPI, USB, I2C, & PCI
  • Experience with open-source frameworks such as Keystone, OP-TEE, TCG DICE. Experience with modern server/platform architectures
  • Proficiency in memory safe programming languages such as Rust. Contribution to industry open-source security initiatives

NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people on the planet working for us. If you're creative, hard-working and self-motivated, we want to hear from you!