CareerPlan

Security Research Engineer, AI Safety and Security Engineering

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$224k–$357k2026-10-20 → 2026-11-10

Core

Develop techniques to validate software vulnerabilities and advance methods for generating and verifying safe fixes for internal NVIDIA targets.

Role type

Senior Security Research Engineer (AI Safety & Security)

Builds

AI-powered tooling for vulnerability validation and patching

Domain

Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, AI Safety

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Vulnerability research, Fuzzing, Program analysis, Secure development (C/C++/Python), Regression testing, Behavior preservation, AI-assisted analysis

Preferred skills

CVE publication, Building fuzzers/static analyzers, Agentic ML (LLM-based agents)

Responsibilities

Develop validation methods to confirm vulnerabilities are real and reachable; Advance patch methods for safe fixes; Define correctness and revalidation standards; Work on bounded vulnerability classes against internal targets

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC