Security Architect - New College Grad 2026 - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$108,000 - $195,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 23 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves defining and advancing security architecture for NVIDIA's SoCs and GPUs.
What you'll do
- Support security certification and compliance efforts, including FIPS 140-3, EU CRA, ISO 21434, and Caliptra trademark audit.
- Assist with certification documentation, evidence collection, and coordination with internal and external partners.
- Translate security requirements and certification expectations into engineering guidance for hardware, firmware, and software teams.
- Review architecture, verification, and firewall specifications to assess platform security requirements.
- Contribute to threat modeling by identifying trust boundaries, attack surfaces, and mitigations.
- Build and improve AI-assisted tools for specification review, security requirement identification, and threat modeling.
What you'll need
- Pursuing or recently completed a BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
- Strong foundation in computer architecture, digital logic, operating systems, embedded systems, or computer security.
- Experience in security, computer architecture, hardware design, or cryptography.
- Programming and debugging fundamentals in one or more of C, C++, Python, Verilog, System Verilog, ARM assembly, RISC V assembly, or scripting languages.
- Strong analytical, reasoning, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
- Interest in learning security architecture for SoCs and GPUs and how AI tools can improve engineering workflows.
Skills: platform security, security certification, secure boot, hardware root of trust, cryptography, SoC security design
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 51-day median for Hardware Security Engineering roles.
Hardware Security Engineering · Hardware Security
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Open roles in category
172
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Median days open
51 d
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Median salary
$233k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (172 roles · 45 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 24 | 172 |
| Median days open | 19 d | 51 d (−32 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $233k |
Skills observed across this category: platform security, security certification, secure boot, hardware root of trust, cryptography, SoC security design
Who's hiring in this category
- NXP Semiconductors · 26 open roles · median 84 d
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 24 open roles · median 25 d
- Qualcomm · 17 open roles · median 100 d
- Arm Holdings · 13 open roles · median 78 d
- AMD · 11 open roles · median 27 d
- Intel Corporation · 6 open roles · median 126 d
How we counted: 172 open Hardware Security Engineering (Hardware Security) roles from 45 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 24 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.