Cyber Security Engineer

NVIDIA•Us, CA

About The Position

NVIDIA is seeking a cybersecurity professional with expertise in incident response, digital forensics, threat hunting, and proactive cyber defense. As part of the Cyber Defense & Response team, this role leads efforts to detect, analyze, and respond to sophisticated attacks targeting NVIDIA’s corporate, cloud, and product environments. The position works across diverse platforms and collaborates with experts in security, data science, AI, and engineering to investigate threats, automate responses, and strengthen security across infrastructure and products.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
8+ years of hands-on experience in incident response and threat hunting, including in cloud environments.
Strong knowledge of cloud security principles, identity and access management, and workload protection.
Experience with product security investigations, vulnerability analysis, and secure coding practices.
Proficiency in forensic analysis, intrusion detection, and threat intelligence.
Advanced knowledge of network analysis, operating system internals (Windows, Linux, and macOS), and web application security, including detecting abnormal behaviors and assessing exploit paths.
Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively across global teams.

Nice To Haves

Certifications such as GCIH, GCFA, AWS or Azure Security Specialty, or CISSP.
Experience with cloud-native security tools such as AWS GuardDuty, Azure Sentinel, or GCP Security Command Center.
Development experience in Python, Go, or a similar language for building security automation.
Hands-on experience with container security (Docker and Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, and AI security.
Advanced knowledge of digital forensics and malware reverse engineering.

Responsibilities

Lead incident response for corporate, cloud, and product environments, including investigation, containment, eradication, and recovery.
Hunt for threats across endpoints, networks, and cloud workloads to identify indicators of compromise, emerging threats, and control gaps.
Conduct cloud incident response across AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, containerized workloads, and other cloud environments, including log analysis, identity compromise investigations, and workload forensics.
Drive product security incident response with engineering teams, analyzing potential exposure to vulnerabilities, exploits, and security flaws in NVIDIA products.
Perform digital forensics and malware analysis to support investigations and root cause analysis.
Develop and optimize security orchestration and automation playbooks in partnership with Security Engineering.
Build and refine detections and defense strategies using threat models, attacker behaviors, and telemetry across cloud, identity, endpoint, and product environments; use frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK to map adversary tactics and improve detection coverage.
Advise engineering and business teams on secure design and incident handling standards.
Contribute to security policies, standards, and metrics to continuously improve NVIDIA’s security posture.