Senior Hardware Security Architect, Cryptographic Keys

We are now looking for a Senior Hardware Security Architect!

NVIDIA is seeking an experienced Hardware Security Architect to architect, design, and validate provisioning of cryptographic keys and certificates for its core GPU products. You are expected to take a strong, hands-on approach to ensuring secure development and engineering practices across multiple internal teams by leading by example. Persons in this role will help reduce risk, threats, and vulnerabilities with a focus on cryptographic key and certificate provisioning; including considerations key and certificate design as well as how they will be securely provisioned at scale.

What you'll be doing:

• Collaborate between multiple business units and development groups to enable robust, secure key and certificate provisioning from design to implementation in multiple products.

• Design, improve, and review manufacturing flows for key and certificate provisioning.

• Perform security reviews of protocols, firmware, and hardware designs that utilized cryptographic keys and certificates, and assist others to ensure security and manufacturability 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 and manufacturability of our GPUs.

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

What we need to see:

• A Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering.

• 5+ years of relevant Software or hardware development experience with a focus and interest in security or cryptography.

• Functional understanding of cryptography and digital certificates.

• Proficiency in programming and scripting languages, such as: Perl, Python, C, rust, and Make. Comfort working in command-line environments such as: Linux/WSL/Terminal, DOS/powershell, etc.

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

• Background familiarity with manufacturing threats and mitigations in a global semiconductor & computer system contract manufacturing environment

• Experience with one or more of the following:

  • HW level applications of cryptography; secure boot, key management, Device identity etc.

  • HSM operations

  • Certificate issuance, X509, etc. 

  • Chip ATE test infrastructure and system/board manufacturing environments

  • post-Quantum cryptographic algorithms& standards.

  • Threat modeling, particularly in the context of dynamic manufacturing environments

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Experience with functional and Security testing ( fuzzing, negative testing, etc), test plan development, and working across teams to drive pre-si, post-si, and system level testing

• Experience with HW architecture, microarchitecture, design, and verification, Verilog RTL coding, etc. especially in the security context.

Our invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world. Today, we are increasingly known as “the AI computing company”. With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us. If you're creative, autonomous and love a challenge, we want to hear from you!

The base salary range is 148,000 USD - 287,500 USD. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.