Intellectual Property Security Engineer

About the role

NVIDIA is seeking an engineer to join the Hardware IP Security team. This role involves protecting NVIDIA's intellectual property from misuse, collaborating with engineering teams to build secure workflows, and developing training materials and security policies.

Responsibilities

• Helping engineering teams build secure-by-default workflows and environments
• Crafting training materials
• Implementing security policies and methodologies
• Investigating newly discovered threats to NVIDIA's security infrastructure
• Understanding security industry standards and enabling others to follow those standards
• Defining priorities, planning schedules, and building relationships with other teams
• Collaborating with other Security, Hardware Engineering, and IT partners to improve existing practices and policies, and reduce the impact of security requirements on engineering productivity

Requirements

• Strong interpersonal skills
• A mentality of improving the productivity and work experience of internal customers
• Established and led high-performing technical teams across hardware engineering and/or information security, driving multi-functional initiatives, mentoring engineers, and delivering secure, reliable systems from design through deployment
• Strong threat-modeling experience, including data flows, trust boundaries, STRIDE-style analysis, and translating findings into mitigations
• Ability to prioritize practical risk reduction in a fast-moving engineering environment
• Experience securing Linux-based on-prem or cloud infrastructure at scale, including authentication, authorization, hardening, patching, logging, and incident response
• Comfortable presenting to and working with senior management to convey risk and work to prioritize mitigation
• Bachelor's, Master's in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience

Qualifications

• 5+ years as technical team lead bridging engineering, product, and customers, translating requirements into actionable plans and steering the team to successful outcomes
• Led and/or mentored a support team of engineers, coaching on technical and customer-facing skills while driving accountability and continuous improvement
• Experience securing AI-assisted developer workflows, including connected CLIs, agent permissions, prompt injection, data leakage, and autonomous execution controls
• Experience with security monitoring, audit logging, detection engineering, and investigation of suspicious activity
• Familiarity with EDA workflows, semiconductor design environments, or other large-scale engineering/HPC environments

Skills

• Threat modeling
• Linux security
• AI security
• EDA workflows
• Security monitoring
• Incident response

Benefits

NVIDIA offers competitive compensation, including a base salary range of $184,000 - $287,500 for Level 4 and $224,000 - $356,500 for Level 5, along with equity and benefits.

Pay

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.

Schedule

This posting is for an existing vacancy. Applications will be accepted until August 1, 2026.