Security Research Engineer, AI Safety and Security Engineering

NVIDIA is widely recognized as one of the world’s most desirable employers, and they are seeking a Security Research Engineer to advance their Validate and Patch capabilities. In this critical role, you will apply rigorous security judgment to confirm vulnerabilities and ensure safe fixes while establishing high engineering standards.

Responsibilities:

• Develop techniques that confirm vulnerabilities are real and reachable
• Advance approaches for generating and verifying safe fixes
• Define correctness, regression, and revalidation standards with reviewers
• Work bounded vulnerability classes against internal targets

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) with 12+ years in security research or software engineering
• Security foundations: Hands-on vulnerability research, fuzzing, program analysis, or secure development in C, C++, or Python
• Fix quality: Rigor about what makes a fix correct and safe, including regression and behavior preservation
• AI-assisted workflows: Comfort using AI-assisted tools for analysis and development
• Public research: CVEs, advisories, or publications in vulnerability research
• Analysis tooling: Experience building or extending fuzzers, static analyzers, or symbolic-execution tools
• Agentic ML: Familiarity with LLM-based coding or analysis agents