Distinguished Engineer, AI Safety and Security Engineering

NVIDIA is a technology company developing advanced computing, AI, and cybersecurity technologies. The Distinguished Engineer will serve as the founding technical leader for the AI Safety & Security Engineering team, owning the harness architecture, engineering standards, and technical roadmap for AI-powered vulnerability discovery, validation, and patching. The role also emphasizes collaboration, design review, and mentorship to establish reliable production systems and a strong engineering culture.

Responsibilities:

• Architecture: Define the canonical harness architecture and component baseline
• Engineering standards: Set the engineering standards the team builds on
• Technical roadmap: Guide the Find, Validate, and Patch technical roadmap
• Mentorship: Mentor founding engineers and support their growth

Requirements:

• • Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) with 18+ years designing and building complex systems
• • Architecture depth: Deep experience architecting distributed systems, ML pipelines, or large-scale platforms
• • Research to production: A record of turning research into production-grade engineering
• • Collaboration: Ability to align engineers and researchers on one technical direction
• • Security exposure: Vulnerability research or security engineering experience
• • Agent systems: Familiarity with agent frameworks or LLM-based tooling
• • Evaluation: Experience building evaluation or benchmarking infrastructure