Intellectual Property Security Engineer

About the role

NVIDIA is seeking an engineer to join the Hardware IP Security team. The ideal candidate will have strong interpersonal skills, a proven track record of leading high-performing technical teams, and extensive experience in threat modeling and securing Linux-based infrastructure at scale.

Responsibilities

• Play a vital role in protecting NVIDIA's intellectual property from malicious and accidental misuse
• Help engineering teams build secure-by-default workflows and environments
• Craft training materials and implement security policies and methodologies
• Investigate newly discovered threats to NVIDIA's security infrastructure
• Understand security industry standards and enable others to follow those standards
• Define priorities, plan schedules, and build relationships with other teams
• Collaborate 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

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, security, or a related field

Skills

• Threat modeling experience, including data flows, trust boundaries, STRIDE-style analysis, and translating findings into mitigations
• 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

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

The base salary for this position 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.