Senior Manager, AI Safety and Security Engineering

NVIDIA is widely recognized as one of the most sought-after employers, with dedicated people building foundational open-weight AI models for American leadership and cybersecurity. Trust in AI grows through participation, transparency, and broad scientific scrutiny—not a single point of control.

About the role

Our AI Safety & Security Engineering team builds and evaluates AI-powered tooling that helps find, validate, and patch software vulnerabilities. We are looking for a Senior Manager to build and lead this team from its very first engineers. You will hire across harness and platform engineering, security research, and evaluation and help these disciplines work as one group at a sustainable pace. You will own delivery of the Find, Validate, and Patch roadmap, make trade-offs visible rather than silent, and share progress in plain language. We value careful engineering over hype: results earn trust through internal review, not bold claims.

Responsibilities

• Team building: Hire, coach, and grow the founding engineering team.
• Delivery: Lead the Find, Validate, and Patch engineering roadmap.
• Partnership: Collaborate with evaluation, security, and platform leadership.
• Communication: Share clear, honest engineering status across NVIDIA.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) with 12+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams.
• Leadership: Experience guiding teams that build complex systems—distributed infrastructure, ML platforms, or security tooling.
• Technical depth: Ability to weigh architecture and evaluation trade-offs in ML or systems software.
• Ambiguity: Steadiness in a young program, where much is still yours to define.

Skills

• Security background: Exposure to vulnerability research or security programs.
• ML systems: Experience with teams building ML infrastructure or agents.
• Founding experience: Growing new teams from their earliest stage.

Benefits

NVIDIA offers a generous benefits package and is widely considered one of the technology industry’s most desirable employers.

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 272,000 USD - 431,250 USD. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.