Security Research Engineer, AI Safety and Security Engineering

About the role

We are seeking a Security Research Engineer to advance our Validate and Patch capabilities by establishing what counts as a confirmed vulnerability and defining what constitutes a truly correct, safe fix. In this critical role, you will apply rigorous security judgment to well-defined categories of vulnerabilities affecting NVIDIA-internal targets. You will turn complex analysis into repeatable methods that improve software people rely on daily.

Validation requires meticulous care to confirm reports are real and reachable rather than noise, while patching requires ensuring fixes repair flaws, protect existing behavior, and hold up under strict revalidation. Working alongside harness and evaluation engineers, you will establish high engineering standards, document your reasoning for independent security reviews, and ensure your methods run reliably with fully traceable evidence. AI-assisted workflows are integral, but so is maintaining disciplined skepticism about their outputs.

Beyond immediate fixes, your work will teach the entire program what trustworthy patching looks like while actively helping decide which vulnerability classes the team tackles next. We hold our results to an exceptionally high bar and value specific, verifiable proof of your technical expertise—such as CVEs, advisories, or original security tools—over polished phrasing.

Responsibilities

• Develop techniques that confirm vulnerabilities are real and reachable (validation methods).
• Advance approaches for generating and verifying safe fixes (patch methods).
• Define correctness, regression, and revalidation standards with reviewers (quality standards).
• Work bounded vulnerability classes against internal targets (applied research).

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) with 12+ years in security research or software engineering.
• Hands-on vulnerability research, fuzzing, program analysis, or secure development in C, C++, or Python (security foundations).
• Rigor about what makes a fix correct and safe, including regression and behavior preservation (fix quality).
• Comfort using AI-assisted tools for analysis and development (AI-assisted workflows).

Skills

• Public research: CVEs, advisories, or publications in vulnerability research.
• Analysis tooling: Experience building or extending fuzzers, static analyzers, or symbolic-execution tools.
• Agentic ML: Familiarity with LLM-based coding or analysis agents.

Benefits

NVIDIA offers a generous benefits package and is widely considered one of the technology industry’s most desirable employers. Our engineering teams work in some of the most impactful fields of our generation, including Confidential Computing and Data.

Pay

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

• 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5.
• 272,000 USD - 431,250 USD for Level 6.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until August 2, 2026.