Distinguished Engineer, AI Safety and Security Engineering
About The Position
NVIDIA is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to serve as the founding technical leader for our AI Safety & Security Engineering team. Rooted in the firm belief that open-weight models, transparency, and broad scientific scrutiny are foundational to American AI leadership and cybersecurity defense, our newly assembled team builds AI-powered tooling to discover, validate, and patch software vulnerabilities. In this foundational role, you will take full ownership of the core harness architecture and baseline engineering standards, guiding our program from early-stage prototypes into a dependable, reviewable production pipeline. Your technical roadmap will dictate how NVIDIA designs, tests, and validates its safety-critical AI systems for years to come. Recognizing that technical leadership is fundamentally collaborative, you will work side-by-side with engineering managers, security partners, and evaluation teams to build consensus through active listening and transparent reasoning. You will act as the crucial bridge between exploratory research ideas and rigorous software engineering, finding balanced paths forward where innovation meets enterprise reliability. Beyond system design, teaching and mentorship are primary components of this position rather than optional add-ons. You will actively review designs across the organization, keeping code quality and safety standards highly visible without hindering engineering velocity. Ultimately, the architectural frameworks and team culture you establish early on will outlive any single component, directly shaping both the careers of founding engineers and the future of secure AI systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) with 18+ years designing and building complex systems.
- Deep experience architecting distributed systems, ML pipelines, or large-scale platforms.
- A record of turning research into production-grade engineering.
- Ability to align engineers and researchers on one technical direction.
Nice To Haves
- Vulnerability research or security engineering experience.
- Familiarity with agent frameworks or LLM-based tooling.
- Experience building evaluation or benchmarking infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Define the canonical harness architecture and component baseline.
- Set the engineering standards the team builds on.
- Guide the Find, Validate, and Patch technical roadmap.
- Mentor founding engineers and support their growth.
Benefits
- Competitive salaries
- Generous benefits package
- Equity
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
