Senior Hardware Security Architect, GPU - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$152,000 - $287,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 10 August 2026 by the employer.
Architect, design, and validate hardware security for GPU products.
About the role
This role involves architecting, designing, and validating hardware security for core GPU products, ensuring the architecture meets hardware security objectives.
What you'll do
- Support GPU hardware security architects to ensure robust, secure service posture from design to implementation. - Develop tools (Perl and Python scripts) to analyze and document vulnerabilities in current and upcoming designs. - Develop tests that run on the GPU architectural model to verify security features. - Perform security reviews of firmware and hardware designs. - Assist in defining architectural and micro-architectural details for features that improve GPU security. - Assist in implementation and verification of hardware features that improve GPU security.
What you'll need
- Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience. - 3-5 years of relevant hardware development experience with a focus on hardware security. - Proficient C/C++ programming and low-level firmware experience.
Skills: HW security, GPU architecture, firmware, threat modeling, side channels
This role has been open 67 days — slightly above the 59-day median for Hardware Security Engineering roles.
Hardware Security Engineering · Hardware Security
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Open roles in category
185
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Median days open
59 d
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Median salary
$224k
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| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (185 roles · 46 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 28 | 185 |
| Median days open | 33 d | 59 d (−26 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $224k |
Skills observed across this category: HW security, GPU architecture, firmware, threat modeling, side channels
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 28 open roles · median 33 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 23 open roles · median 107 d
- Qualcomm · 17 open roles · median 121 d
- Arm Holdings · 13 open roles · median 101 d
- STMicroelectronics · 11 open roles · median 15 d
- AMD · 8 open roles · median 57 d
How we counted: 185 open Hardware Security Engineering (Hardware Security) roles from 46 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 17 Oct 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.