About the Role
NVIDIA is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to lead the AI Safety & Security Engineering team. This role involves building AI-powered tooling to discover, validate, and patch software vulnerabilities, defining core harness architecture and engineering standards, and guiding the program from prototypes to a production pipeline. The technical roadmap will shape how NVIDIA designs, tests, and validates safety-critical AI systems. This role requires collaboration with engineering managers, security partners, and evaluation teams, acting as a bridge between research and software engineering, and includes teaching and mentorship.
Responsibilities
- Define the canonical harness architecture and component baseline.
- Set the engineering standards the team builds on.
- Guide the Find, Validate, and Patch technical roadmap.
- Mentor founding engineers and support their growth.
- Actively review designs across the organization, maintaining code quality and safety standards without hindering engineering velocity.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) with 18+ years designing and building complex systems.
- Deep experience architecting distributed systems, ML pipelines, or large-scale platforms.
- A record of turning research into production-grade engineering.
- Ability to align engineers and researchers on one technical direction.
Skills
- Vulnerability research
- Security engineering
- Agent frameworks
- LLM-based tooling
- Evaluation infrastructure
- Benchmarking infrastructure
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 18+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Salary/Compensations
- 320,000 USD - 488,750 USD
Benefits
- Equity
- Benefits package
About the Company
- NVIDIA is a desirable employer in the technology industry, known for its forward-thinking people and growing engineering teams in Confidential Computing and Data.
- NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.
Equal Opportunity
- NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and is an equal opportunity employer.
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.
