Senior Offensive Security Researcher, GPU System Software

NVIDIA

. Own the end-to-end security story for specific subcomponents, from threat model through hardening and verification .

Posted 9/23/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $224,000 - $431,250 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in offensive security research, vulnerability analysis, and secure development practices, with a strong foundation in low-level programming and hardware mitigation techniques. Proven ability to collaborate across teams to enhance product security and robustness.

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Offensive Security ResearchVulnerability AnalysisC And Assembly SkillsFirmware Or Embedded Reverse EngineeringSecure Development Lifecycle Practices

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Hard Skills

Vulnerability ResearchExploit DevelopmentThreat ModelingStatic And Dynamic AnalysisFuzzingCompiler ModificationsLow-Level Driver ExperienceMemory TaggingPointer MaskingHardware CFI

Soft Skills

Collaborative WorkRemote Teamwork

Tools & Technologies

LLVMGCCAI And LLM-Based ToolingModel Checking

Industry Keywords

Computer ArchitectureRISC-VMicrocodeKernel DriversEmbedded SoftwareProduct RobustnessIncident ResponseCode Audit

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AssemblyRustSpark

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the end-to-end security story for specific subcomponents, from threat model through hardening and verification
Design, prototype, and drive production adoption of mitigation and hardening technologies, including hardware CFI, Pointer Masking, and Memory Tagging
Build and evangelize tools, practices, and processes that improve product robustness across the company
Perform offensive security research across GPU and platform firmware, microcode, kernel drivers, and embedded software
Identify vulnerabilities, build proof-of-concept exploits, and partner with development teams to remediate them
Perform threat analysis and security reviews of software and hardware designs

Requirements

What you’ll need

BS in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
12+ years of relevant software engineering or security research experience
Demonstrated experience in an offensive security role
Excellent C and assembly skills and hands-on low-level driver or firmware experience
Vulnerability research experience: fuzzing, static and dynamic analysis, exploit development, and coverage-guided techniques
Experience with secure development lifecycle practices such as threat modeling, code audit, and incident response
Experience applying AI and LLM-based tooling to vulnerability discovery, triage, or analysis
Ability to work collaboratively and remotely on complex, cross-team goals
Firmware or embedded reverse engineering, especially on RISC-V or other non-x86 architectures
Experience designing hardware or compiler-assisted mitigations from the ground up, including compiler modifications (LLVM, GCC)
Familiarity with computer architecture fundamentals: caches, buses, memory controllers, DMA, MMUs, and IOMMUs
Experience with formally verifiable languages or methods (SPARK, Ada, Rust, model checking)
Published research, such as talks at BH or DEF CON, or articles in publications like Phrack

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