Nvidia Senior Hardware Security Architect 

United States, Texas 

395408656

What you'll be doing:

• Drive the GPU Security architecture, implementation, and roadmap for one of the upcoming GPUs.

• Collaborate between multiple business units and development groups to ensure the GPU meets the security requirements of the target customers.

• 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.

• Define architectural and micro-architectural details for features that improve security of our GPUs.

• Drive implementation and 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.

• 10+ years of relevant hardware development experience with a focus and interest in hardware security and computer systems.

• Deep 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 working understanding of floor-planning, ASIC physical design, VLSI and DFT.

• 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:

• Familiarity with kernel level security concepts.

• 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.