Offensive Hardware Security Researcher - CA, Santa Clara, United States
Digital Design & SoC Architecture
Originally posted 26 June 2026 by the employer.
About the role
NVIDIA is seeking an Offensive Hardware Security Researcher to work on hardware vulnerability research and security challenges. The position focuses on analyzing vulnerabilities across SoC and GPU designs.
What you'll do
- Research vulnerabilities across SoC and GPU designs.
- Develop and deploy security tools and automation techniques.
- Guide the continuous integration of mitigations into security architecture.
- Research and exploit side-channel, fault, and physical attacks.
What you'll need
- BS/BA degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 6+ years of work experience in a security-related field.
- Experience with ARM/RISCV assembly, Verilog, and low-level C programming.
- Understanding of large SoC and ASIC architecture and design.
- Experience with security code reviews of complex firmware projects and defensive coding best practices (SDL, threat modeling).
- Expertise in two or more of the following: side-channel analysis and mitigation for cryptographic primitives; TEE (TrustZone, SE), Confidential Computing, and/or microarchitectural attacks; symbolic execution and/or fuzzing tools; JTAG, debugging, binary instrumentation frameworks, ChipWhisperer; reverse-engineering (IDA Pro, Ghidra); or machine learning techniques for side-channel attacks.
- Track record of vulnerability discoveries, research publications, or developing security tools.
Skills: Offensive Hardware Security, SoC, GPU, ARM/RISCV assembly, Verilog, low-level C programming