Senior NVIDIA Offensive Security Researcher, GPU System Software
$224,000 - $431,250 USD yearly
Originally posted 22 September 2026 by the employer.
Focus on offensive security research across GPU firmware, microcode, kernel drivers, and embedded software.
About the role
This role focuses on offensive security research within NVIDIA's GPU system software, including firmware, microcode, kernel drivers, and embedded software. You will attack production GPU firmware and microcode, kernel drivers, and embedded software, and help design mitigations for these systems, many of which use RISC-V cores.
What you'll do
- Be responsible for the end-to-end security story for specific subcomponents, from threat model to hardening to verification.
- Design, prototype, and drive production adoption of new mitigation and hardening technologies.
- Build and evangelize tools, practices, and processes that raise product robustness.
- Perform offensive security research across GPU and platform firmware, microcode, kernel drivers, and embedded software.
- Identify vulnerabilities, build proof-of-concept exploits, and partner with development teams to remediate them.
- Perform threat analysis and security reviews of software and hardware designs.
What you'll need
- BS in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
- 12+ years of relevant software engineering or security research experience.
- Demonstrated experience in an offensive security role.
- Excellent C and assembly skills and hands-on low-level driver or firmware experience.
- Vulnerability research experience: fuzzing, static and dynamic analysis, exploit development, and coverage-guided techniques.
- Experience with secure development lifecycle practices such as threat modeling, code audit, and incident response.
- Experience applying AI and LLM-based tooling to vulnerability discovery, triage, or analysis.
Skills: GPU firmware, kernel drivers, embedded software, offensive security, exploit development, RISC-V
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 50-day median for Hardware Security Engineering roles.
Hardware Security Engineering · Hardware Security
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Open roles in category
171
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Median days open
50 d
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Median salary
$233k
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| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (171 roles · 45 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 24 | 171 |
| Median days open | 24 d | 50 d (−26 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $233k |
Skills observed across this category: GPU firmware, kernel drivers, embedded software, offensive security, exploit development, RISC-V
Who's hiring in this category
- NXP Semiconductors · 26 open roles · median 83 d
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 22 open roles · median 24 d
- Qualcomm · 17 open roles · median 99 d
- Arm Holdings · 13 open roles · median 77 d
- AMD · 10 open roles · median 31 d
- Intel Corporation · 6 open roles · median 125 d
How we counted: 171 open Hardware Security Engineering (Hardware Security) roles from 45 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 23 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.