Senior Security Software Engineer - AV Platform - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$152,000 - $287,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 12 October 2026 by the employer.
This role focuses on implementing security concepts and developing security features for our Autonomous Driving Platform.
About the role
This role involves working on the Autonomous Driving Platform software, implementing scalable solutions for data collection and autonomous vehicle fleets. It focuses on developing platform and middleware features for self-driving cars, including software security features that interact with various sensors.
What you'll do
- Integrate security features into the AV driving software stack. - Develop and improve security work-products for the AV stack. - Work on security-related software code from sensor abstraction layers to middleware. - Work on security governance topics and guide teams with security mechanism implementation. - Collaborate with hardware, platform software, product, safety, performance, algorithms, and cloud teams.
What you'll need
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience). - 5+ years of professional experience working on system software. - Excellent programming skills in C++, C, and Python. - Experience in architectural security analysis techniques such as threat modeling, risk analysis, attack trees (using STRIDE, HEAVENS). - Experience with automotive cybersecurity standards/regulations (e.g., ISO 21434, SAE J3061, UNECE Regulation 155). - Solid understanding of Linux, QNX, ROS, and/or real-time operating systems. - Experience in developing user-space system software, with willingness to delve into kernel-space and/or low-level hardware. - Knowledge about embedded system programming, threading, mutex, synchronization, communication, and parallel computing. - Prior experience working in Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, Self-Driving-Cars, CPU/GPU technology, Embedded Systems, or Computer Vision.
Skills: Autonomous Driving Platform, software security features, threat modeling, ISO 21434, embedded systems
This role has been open 2 days — well below the 58-day median for Hardware Security Engineering roles.
Hardware Security Engineering · Hardware Security
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Open roles in category
184
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Median days open
58 d
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Median salary
$229k
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| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (184 roles · 47 employers) |
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| Open roles in this specialty | 27 | 184 |
| Median days open | 33 d | 58 d (−25 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $229k |
Skills observed across this category: Autonomous Driving Platform, software security features, threat modeling, ISO 21434, embedded systems
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 27 open roles · median 33 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 23 open roles · median 105 d
- Qualcomm · 17 open roles · median 119 d
- Arm Holdings · 13 open roles · median 99 d
- STMicroelectronics · 11 open roles · median 17 d
- AMD · 9 open roles · median 41 d
How we counted: 184 open Hardware Security Engineering (Hardware Security) roles from 47 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 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.