Software Security Architect

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Location

California + 4 moreAll locations: California | New York | Michigan | Texas | Washington

Posted

3 days ago

Salary

$224K - $356.5K / year

Seniority

Lead

Bachelor Degree12 yrs expEnglishAndroidLinuxTCP/IP

Job Description

Software Security Architect

NVIDIA

• Define, analyze, and review secure software architectures for centralized automotive computing platforms • Perform threat modeling and security architecture analysis for mixed-criticality, multi-tenant automotive software systems • Partner with safety architects to reason about the interaction between security controls, safety mechanisms, failure modes, and recovery behavior • Define OS security policy, access control, isolation, and privilege models across Android, Linux, QNX, and virtualized environments • Build security systems that maintain integrity and availability for safety-critical vehicle software • Analyze security trade-offs involving performance, latency, memory footprint, boot time, diagnosability, and functional safety requirements • Guide engineering teams on secure build, secure coding, threat mitigation, and security review practices • Collaborate across software, hardware, safety, security, and systems teams to meet NVIDIA and automotive industry standards

Job Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience in secure and safe embedded software development
  • Bachelor degree or equivalent experience
  • Strong background in embedded systems security, platform security, and OS security applied to high performance computers (HPCs)
  • Solid understanding of software safety principles and their interplay with secure development principles when applied to mixed-criticality systems
  • Experience implementing security frameworks to address integrity and availability issues
  • Experience with threat modeling, applied cryptography, common attack vectors, and security reviews
  • Familiarity with ARM-based SoC architecture, including caches, buses, memory controllers, debug, interrupt handling, and device access control
  • Familiarity with OS architecture, kernel concepts, drivers, process isolation, memory protection, and networking protocols such as Ethernet, TCP/IP, and TLS
  • Experience with virtualization technologies and building secure multi-tenant embedded platforms

Benefits

  • Equity and benefits
  • Comprehensive benefits package

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