Security Research Engineer, AI Safety and Security...

NVIDIA, widely recognized as one of the world’s most desirable employers, believes open-weight models are foundational to American AI leadership, cybersecurity, and defense through broad scientific scrutiny. As part of this mission, our AI Safety & Security Engineering team builds and evaluates AI-powered tooling that finds, validates, and patches software vulnerabilities, recognizing that finding a bug is only the beginning. 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. These affect NVIDIA-internal targets. You will turn complex analysis into repeatable methods that improve software people rely on daily.

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) with 5+ years in security research or software engineering.

• Security foundations: Hands-on vulnerability research, fuzzing, program analysis, or secure development in C, C++, or Python.

• Fix quality: Rigor about what makes a fix correct and safe, including regression and behavior preservation.

• AI-assisted workflows: Comfort using AI-assisted tools for analysis and development.

With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology industry’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and versatile people in the world working with us, and our engineering teams are growing fast in some of the most impactful fields of our generation: Confidential Computing and Data. If you’re a creative engineer who enjoys autonomy and shares our passion for technology, we want to hear from you.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 152,000 USD - 241,500 USD.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits (https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/benefits/) .