Senior Firmware Security Architect, Networking

🕒 October 19

🏄 California, Massachusetts, +2 more states – Remote

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NVIDIA is a leading technology company specializing in accelerated computing and artificial intelligence. NVIDIA pioneers advancements in graphical processing units (GPUs), cloud computing, data centers, and virtual reality, with a focus on gaming, automotive, healthcare, and robotics industries. The company's innovations, such as NVIDIA Omniverse, transform traditional digital processes by enabling high-fidelity simulations and rendering tasks. Their applications span various industries, from autonomous vehicles using NVIDIA DRIVE to healthcare solutions with NVIDIA Clara, and AI-driven analytics and workflows.

📋 Description

• Contribute to the security architecture of NVIDIA Networking firmware, including trust boundaries, privilege separation, device identity and key storage, secure boot and chain of trust, and secure update and anti-rollback flows • Perform security threat modeling of firmware and embedded subsystems across NVIDIA Networking products • Analyze complex firmware and hardware/firmware interactions to identify security weaknesses • Define security features and mitigations across the device lifecycle, including provisioning, attestation, debug authorization, runtime hardening, and field update • Guide engineering teams throughout implementation • Translate threat models into actionable security requirements and architectural decisions • Review designs and implementations against security requirements • Partner with hardware and ASIC architects to specify security primitives and define their use across the product line • Drive secure firmware development practices, including memory-safe coding patterns in C, static analysis, and fuzzing of firmware-exposed interfaces • Ensure development processes meet security and coding standards

🎯 Requirements

• Academic degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience) • 8+ years of experience in product security, firmware security, or security research, including hands-on work with embedded or firmware codebases • Experience defining security policy models, including authorization schemes, RBAC, and administrative role separation • Familiarity with applied cryptography, including secure boot, code signing, and attestation • Familiarity with threat modeling, common attack vectors, and mitigation techniques • Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a constantly evolving environment • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills • Preferred: M.Sc. or PhD in computer science, electrical engineering, or related technical field • Experience with hardware/software interfaces in networking devices, including register and MMIO programming models, DMA, mailbox and doorbell mechanisms, PCIe configuration and management interfaces, and firmware • Experience with hardware roots of trust and hardware-enforced isolation, including MPU/MMU, secure enclaves, and fuse/OTP-based provisioning • Hands-on experience with networking software, including device drivers, control plane, management interfaces, or embedded network operating systems • Familiarity with high-scale deployment, the data center security ecosystem, and its operational challenges

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salaries • Comprehensive benefits package • Equity

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