Nvidia Senior Hardware Security Architect GPU Verification 

United States, Texas 

192683774

What you'll be doing:

• Define verification flows and requirements for GPU security features.

• Work with architecture, HW IP, and fullchip verification teams to ensure new GPU security features are verified correctly.

• Write testplans and architectural model tests to verify GPU security requirements.

• Perform security reviews of firmware and hardware designs and assist others to ensure quality and robustness of our products.

• Recommend best practices for secure service development driving continuous improvement in the engineering organization. Including mentoring, developing and delivering training materials, producing frameworks to reduce best practice patterns to application for use in production efforts.

• Review architectural and micro-architectural details for features that improve security of our GPUs in order to ensure they can be verified.

• Drive verification of hardware features that improve security of our GPUs.

• You will collaborate to develop a long-term security roadmap for our products to ensure suitability for the markets we serve.

What we need to see:

• A Masters degree or equivalent experience in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering.

• 8+ years of relevant hardware development experience with a focus and interest in hardware security and chip verification.

• Deep understanding of verification methodologies.

• Understanding of processor architectures (GPU is a plus), caches and memory systems.

• Proficiency in Verilog RTL coding and scripting languages, such as: Perl, Python and Make etc.

• A hands on technical background; excellent C programming and low-level firmware experience.

• Strong communication skills are required along with the ability to work in a dynamic product oriented team.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Experience with security testing techniques, threat modeling, fuzzing, negative testing and other techniques.

• Background with micro architectural attacks (side channels, fault injection, etc).

• Experience with HW level applications of cryptography; secure boot, key management, etc.