Software Security Architect

About the role

NVIDIA is seeking a Software Security Architect to join the DRIVE OS Automotive Software team. This role involves developing safety-critical automotive platforms that are resilient to cyber attacks.

Responsibilities

• Define, analyze, and review secure software architectures for centralized automotive computing platforms.
• Perform threat modeling and security architecture analysis for mixed-criticality, multi-tenant automotive software systems.
• Partner with safety architects to reason about the interaction between security controls, safety mechanisms, failure modes, and recovery behavior.
• Define OS security policy, access control, isolation, and privilege models across Android, Linux, QNX, and virtualized environments.
• Build security systems that maintain integrity and availability for safety-critical vehicle software.
• Analyze security trade-offs involving performance, latency, memory footprint, boot time, diagnosability, and functional safety requirements.
• Guide engineering teams on secure build, secure coding, threat mitigation, and security review practices.
• Collaborate across software, hardware, safety, security, and systems teams to meet NVIDIA and automotive industry standards.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in secure and safe embedded software development.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Strong background in embedded systems security, platform security, and OS security applied to high performance computers (HPCs).
• Solid understanding of software safety principles and their interplay with secure development principles when applied to mixed-criticality systems.
• Experience implementing security frameworks to address integrity and availability issues.
• Experience with threat modeling, applied cryptography, common attack vectors, and security reviews.
• Familiarity with ARM-based SoC architecture, including caches, buses, memory controllers, debug, interrupt handling, and device access control.
• Familiarity with OS architecture, kernel concepts, drivers, process isolation, memory protection, and networking protocols such as Ethernet, TCP/IP, and TLS.
• Experience with virtualization technologies and building secure multi-tenant embedded platforms.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with both ISO/SAE 21434 and ISO 26262, including TARA, HARA, and safety-security co-analysis.
• Deep experience with hypervisors, kernels, device drivers, boot firmware, debug infrastructure, or low-level platform security.
• Experience with formal specification, formal verification, and model checking.
• Ability to translate between safety, security, systems, and software engineering teams and drive practical architectural decisions.

Benefits

Widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers, NVIDIA offers highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package. As you plan your future, see what we can offer to you and your family here. 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 - $356,500. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Pay

Base salary range: $224,000 - $356,500

Schedule

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Application Instructions

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until June 26, 2026.