Distinguished Engineer, AI Safety and Security Engineering

NVIDIA is a leading technology company focused on AI and computing. They are seeking a Distinguished Engineer to lead their AI Safety & Security Engineering team, responsible for building AI-powered tools to discover, validate, and patch software vulnerabilities. The role involves defining architecture, setting engineering standards, guiding technical roadmaps, and mentoring engineers.

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

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
• Vulnerability research or security engineering experience
• Familiarity with agent frameworks or LLM-based tooling
• Experience building evaluation or benchmarking infrastructure