Distinguished Engineer, AI Safety and Security Engineering

- Architecture: Define the canonical harness architecture and component baseline.

- Engineering standards: Set the engineering standards the team builds on.

- Technical roadmap: Guide the Find, Validate, and Patch technical roadmap.

- Mentorship: Mentor founding engineers and support their growth.

- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) with 18+ years designing and building complex systems.

- Architecture depth: Deep experience architecting distributed systems, ML pipelines, or large-scale platforms.

- Research to production: A record of turning research into production-grade engineering.

- Collaboration: Ability to align engineers and researchers on one technical direction.

- Security exposure: Vulnerability research or security engineering experience.

- Agent systems: Familiarity with agent frameworks or LLM-based tooling.

- Evaluation: Experience building evaluation or benchmarking infrastructure.

With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology industry's most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and versatile people in the world working with us, and our engineering teams are growing fast in some of the most impactful fields of our generation: Confidential Computing and Data.

If you're a creative engineer who enjoys autonomy and shares our passion for technology, we want to hear from you.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 320,000 USD - 488,750 USD.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits .

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until July 30, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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