Senior Firmware Security Architect, Networking

Responsibilities

• Be involved in the security architecture of NVIDIA Networking firmware — trust boundaries, privilege separation between firmware domains, device identity and key storage, secure boot and chain of trust, and secure update and anti-rollback flows.
• Perform security threat modeling of firmware and embedded subsystems across NVIDIA Networking products.
• Analyze complex firmware and hardware/firmware interactions to identify security weaknesses, including boot flows, privileged execution environments, and host- and network-facing management interfaces.
• Define security features and mitigations spanning the full device lifecycle — provisioning, attestation, debug authorization, runtime hardening, and field update. Guide the engineering teams throughout the implementation.
• Translate threat models into actionable security requirements and architectural decisions, and review designs and implementations against them.
• Partner with hardware and ASIC architects to specify the security primitives firmware depends on, and define how they are used across the product line.
• Drive secure development practices for firmware — memory-safe coding patterns in C, static analysis, and fuzzing of firmware-exposed interfaces — and make sure development processes meet security and coding standards.
• What we need to see
• Academic degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field. Candidates with equivalent work experience will also be considered.
• Demonstrated experience of 5+ years in product security, firmware security, or security research, including hands-on work with embedded or firmware codebases.

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