Senior Manager, AI Safety and Security Engineering
NVIDIA believes open-weight models are foundational to American AI leadership and cybersecurity and that trust in AI grows through participation, transparency, and broad scientific scrutiny—not a single point of control. Our AI Safety & Security Engineering team builds and evaluates AI-powered tooling that helps find, validate, and patch software vulnerabilities.
About the role
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.
Nice-to-haves
- 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 competitive salary and a generous benefits package.
Pay
Base salary range: 272,000 USD - 431,250 USD. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.
Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.