Nvidia Offensive Hardware Security Researcher 

United States, California 

638076498

What you will be doing:

• Research vulnerabilities on cutting-edge SoC and GPU designs

• Develop and use cutting-edge security tools and techniques

• Guide the continuous integration of latest mitigations into our security architecture

• Research and exploit side-channel, fault, and advanced physical attacks

What we need to see:

• BS/BA degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience

• 6+ years of work experience in a Security related field

• Experience with ARM/RISCV assembly, Verilog and low-level C programming

• Understanding of large SoC and ASIC architecture and design

• Experience with security code reviews of complex firmware projects and defensive coding best practices (SDL, threat modeling)

• Ability to work collaboratively and remotely with multiple experts to accomplish complex goals

• Expertise in two of more of the following fields:

  • Expertise in side-channel analysis and mitigation for cryptographic primitives

  • TEE (TrustZone, SE), Confidential Computing, and/or microarchitectural attacks

  • Proficiency with Symbolic Execution and/or fuzzing tools

  • JTAG, debugging, binary instrumentation frameworks, ChipWhisperer

  • Reverse-engineering (IDA Pro, Ghidra)

  • Practical experience in utilizing machine learning techniques for performing side-channel attacks

• Track record of advancing offensive security research field through vulnerability discoveries, research publications, and/or developing security tools

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Understanding of pre-silicon hardware design and testing

• Knowledge of key hardware security architecture components, and their implementation in complex SoC designs

• Strong background in computer architecture, especially GPU or AI accelerator design