Senior Firmware Security Architect, Networking
Core
Architecting and hardening security for NVIDIA Networking firmware, covering trust boundaries, secure boot, key storage, and device lifecycle security.
Role type
Senior IC firmware security architect
Builds
Secure firmware and embedded subsystems for millions of networking devices
Domain
Networking hardware and firmware security
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
firmware security, threat modeling, applied cryptography, secure boot, code signing, attestation, RBAC, memory-safe coding, static analysis, fuzzing
Preferred skills
hardware/software interfaces in networking devices, hardware roots of trust, hardware-enforced isolation, networking software, high-scale deployment
Technologies
C, static analysis tools, fuzzing frameworks
Responsibilities
Define security architecture for firmware trust boundaries and privilege separation; Perform security threat modeling of firmware and embedded subsystems; Analyze firmware/hardware interactions to identify security weaknesses; Define security features and mitigations spanning the full device lifecycle; Translate threat models into actionable security requirements and review designs; Drive secure development practices including memory-safe coding and fuzzing
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
