We are now looking for a Senior Hardware Security Architect - GPU Security Verification:

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Hardware Security engineer to architect, design, validate, and guide implementation of HW security for its GPU products with a focus on security verification. You are expected to take a strong, hands-on approach to ensuring secure development and engineering practices across multiple internal teams by leading by example. Persons in this role will help reduce risk, threats, and vulnerabilities with a focus on GPU security verification.

What you'll be doing:

• Define verification flows and requirements for GPU security features.

• Work with architecture, HW IP, and fullchip verification teams to ensure new GPU security features are verified correctly.

• Write testplans and architectural model tests to verify GPU security requirements.

• Perform security reviews of firmware and hardware designs and assist others to ensure quality and robustness of our products.

• Recommend best practices for secure service development driving continuous improvement in the engineering organization. Including mentoring, developing and delivering training materials, producing frameworks to reduce best practice patterns to application for use in production efforts.

• Review architectural and micro-architectural details for features that improve security of our GPUs in order to ensure they can be verified.

• Drive verification of hardware features that improve security of our GPUs.

• You will collaborate to develop a long-term security roadmap for our products to ensure suitability for the markets we serve.

What we need to see:

• A Masters degree or equivalent experience in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering.

• 8+ years of relevant hardware development experience with a focus and interest in hardware security and chip verification.

• Deep understanding of verification methodologies.

• Understanding of processor architectures (GPU is a plus), caches and memory systems.

• Proficiency in Verilog RTL coding and scripting languages, such as: Perl, Python and Make etc.

• A hands on technical background; excellent C programming and low-level firmware experience.

• Strong communication skills are required along with the ability to work in a dynamic product oriented team.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Experience with security testing techniques, threat modeling, fuzzing, negative testing and other techniques.

• Background with micro architectural attacks (side channels, fault injection, etc).

• Experience with HW level applications of cryptography; secure boot, key management, etc.

NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us. Are you creative and autonomous? Do you love the challenge of crafting the securest silicon possible? If so, we want to hear from you. Come, join our GPU Security Architecture team and help build the real-time, cost-effective computing platform driving our success across several exciting and quickly growing fields.

The base salary range is 176,000 USD - 333,500 USD. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.