Software Security Architect

Are you passionate about software security and looking to make a significant impact in the automotive industry? Join NVIDIA, a world-class leader in AI and accelerated computing, as a Software Security Architect in our DRIVE OS Automotive Software team.

• Define, analyze, and review secure software architectures for centralized automotive computing platforms.
• Perform threat modeling and security architecture analysis for mixed‑criticality, multi‑tenant automotive software systems.
• Partner with safety architects to reason about the interaction between security controls, safety mechanisms, failure modes, and recovery behavior.
• Define OS security policy, access control, isolation, and privilege models across Android, Linux, QNX, and virtualized environments.
• Build security systems that maintain integrity and availability for safety‑critical vehicle software.
• Analyze security trade‑offs involving performance, latency, memory footprint, boot time, diagnosability, and functional safety requirements.
• Guide engineering teams on secure build, secure coding, threat mitigation, and security review practices.
• Collaborate across software, hardware, safety, security, and systems teams to meet NVIDIA and automotive industry standards.

• 12+ years of experience in secure and safe embedded software development.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Strong background in embedded systems security, platform security, and OS security applied to high performance computers (HPCs).
• Solid understanding of software safety principles and their interplay with secure development principles when applied to mixed‑criticality systems.
• Experience implementing security frameworks to address integrity and availability issues.
• Experience with threat modeling, applied cryptography, common attack vectors, and security reviews.
• Familiarity with ARM‑based SoC architecture, including caches, buses, memory controllers, debug, interrupt handling, and device access control.
• Familiarity with OS architecture, kernel concepts, drivers, process isolation, memory protection, and networking protocols such as Ethernet, TCP/IP, and TLS.
• Experience with virtualization technologies and building secure multi‑tenant embedded platforms.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is $224,000 USD – $356,500 USD. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until June 26, 2026.

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