NVIDIA is seeking a Software Security Architect to join its DRIVE OS Automotive Software team. This role focuses on developing safety-critical automotive platforms that are resilient to cyber attacks while meeting high performance demands. The ideal candidate will work in a collaborative environment, contributing to secure software architectures and ensuring the integrity and availability of vehicle software. This position offers the opportunity to make a significant impact in the automotive industry through innovative security solutions.

• 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
• 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

• 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

• Employees at NVIDIA are often offered comprehensive, day-one benefits—including medical, dental, and vision coverage with HSA support, life and disability insurance, an Employee Assistance Program, and a 401(k) with auto-enrollment. Many roles also have generous time off and holidays, donation matching (up to $10,000), and a wide menu of extras like FSAs, commuter benefits, legal and identity-theft protection, pet insurance, and wellness discounts. Optional programs can include student-loan and home-purchase support, plus family care resources and expert medical services.