Principal Engineer, Security Architecture - DGX Cloud - Remote
$272,000 - $431,250 USD yearly
Originally posted 21 September 2026 by the employer — open 1 day.
About the role
As a Principal Engineer for Security Architecture, you will own a core security domain of the AI factory, covering architecture, delivery, and code within NVIDIA DGX Cloud.
What you'll do
- Take architectural ownership of a core domain of DGX Cloud security from design through production.
- Embed with teams early in the design phase, write code, and help land solutions.
- Engineer secure paths into the platform that are also easy to adopt.
- Identify and engineer out classes of risk from systems.
- Perform deep-dive threat models and attack designs to improve baselines and guardrails.
- Translate DGX Cloud security standards into reference architectures, requirements, and golden paths.
- Partner with DGX Cloud platform, production engineering, network security teams, and NVIDIA's central security organization.
What you'll need
- 15+ years of experience across software engineering, SRE, infrastructure, and security engineering.
- Strong software engineering background with the ability to write clean, maintainable, and well-tested production-grade code.
- Experience working with emerging technologies, including AI-generated code and AI-assisted analysis.
- Demonstrated experience with security architecture in practice, including designs that were built and operated in areas like multi-tenant isolation, identity and access, or policy enforcement.
- Proven ability to build threat models for complex distributed systems and identify architectural gaps.
- Depth in distributed systems and Linux, including cloud-native architecture, container orchestration (Kubernetes), and kernel-level primitives (eBPF, AppArmor, or SELinux).
- Experience landing designs through influence in environments where credibility and relationships determine project success.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
Skills: security architecture, DGX Cloud, GPU clusters, multi-tenant isolation, cloud-native security
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 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, DGX Cloud, GPU clusters, multi-tenant isolation, cloud-native security
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.