Distinguished Engineer, Security Architecture - DGX Cloud - Remote
$320,000 - $488,750 USD yearly
Originally posted 21 September 2026 by the employer — open 1 day.
The DGX Cloud security team is accountable for the security outcome of the platform, with a focus on hardware root of trust and GPU workload isolation.
About the role
This role involves setting the security design standard for NVIDIA's DGX Cloud, an AI factory leveraging hundreds of thousands of GPUs, and collaborating with engineering teams to implement it. The scope encompasses security from the hardware root of trust through GPU workload isolation, services, and APIs.
What you'll do
- Own and make concrete the security design standard across DGX Cloud for tenancy, GPU workloads, identity, supply chain, and isolation.
- Embed with engineering teams to design, learn code, and help ship security features.
- Drive the multi-year architecture for common security infrastructure including hardened baselines, patch SLOs, deploy-time policy, admission control, workload identity, and supply-chain provenance.
- Attack recurring risk at its architectural root, including offensively against designs, and feed findings back into baselines and detections.
- Lead and grow a small team of Principal Engineers, setting technical direction and hiring into gaps.
- Serve as DGX Cloud's primary technical connection into NVIDIA's central security organization and partner with other engineering teams.
What you'll need
- Experience (typically 20+ years) across software engineering, infrastructure, and security, with recent depth securing large-scale distributed or cloud platforms.
- Proven record owning the security architecture of a large platform end to end, across multi-tenant isolation, identity and access, policy enforcement, supply chain, and detection.
- Deep enough in the code to stay credible and hands-on, having written, shipped, and operated production services at scale.
- Ability to form a view early on emerging technology shifts impacting the platform, such as AI-generated code or AI-assisted security analysis.
- Depth to threat model a complex distributed system (substrate, orchestration layer, tenancy boundary) and distinguish architectural gaps from bugs.
- Experience with cloud-native architecture, container orchestration (Kubernetes), Linux systems security including kernel-level primitives, and security properties of high-throughput multi-tenant environments.
- Experience (typically 7+ years) leading and growing senior technical talent, including Principal Engineers.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
Skills: security architecture, hardware root of trust, GPU workload isolation, supply-chain provenance, threat modeling
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 49-day median for Hardware Security Engineering roles.
Hardware Security Engineering · Hardware Security
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Open roles in category
169
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Median days open
49 d
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Median salary
$223k
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| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (169 roles · 45 employers) |
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| Open roles in this specialty | 22 | 169 |
| Median days open | 23 d | 49 d (−26 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $223k |
Skills observed across this category: security architecture, hardware root of trust, GPU workload isolation, supply-chain provenance, threat modeling
Who's hiring in this category
- NXP Semiconductors · 26 open roles · median 82 d
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 20 open roles · median 27 d
- Qualcomm · 17 open roles · median 98 d
- Arm Holdings · 13 open roles · median 76 d
- AMD · 10 open roles · median 30 d
- Intel Corporation · 6 open roles · median 124 d
How we counted: 169 open Hardware Security Engineering (Hardware Security) roles from 45 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 22 Sept 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.