Senior Hardware Security Architect - GPU Manufacturing

Company: NVIDIA
Location: Santa Clara
Posted on: January 20, 2023

Job Description:

We are now looking for a Senior Hardware Security Architect - GPU Manufacturing. NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Hardware Security engineer to architect, design, validate, and guide provisioning of cryptographic keys and certificates for its core GPU products. You are expected to take a strong, hands-on approach to ensuring secure development and engineering practices across multiple internal teams by leading by example. Persons in this role will help reduce risk, threats, and vulnerabilities with a focus on cryptographic key and certificate provisioning; including considerations key and certificate design as well as how they will be securely provisioned at scale.What you'll be doing:Collaborate between multiple business units and development groups to enable robust, secure key and certificate provisioning from design to implementation in multiple products.Design, improve, and review manufacturing flows for key and certificate provisioning.Collaborate with NVIDIA operations and external contractors to ensure all key material required for each new product is verified and provisioned correctly.Perform security reviews of firmware and hardware designs that utilized cryptographic keys and certificates, and assist others to ensure security and manufacturability of our products.Recommend best practices for secure service development driving continuous improvement in the engineering organization. Including mentoring, developing and delivering training materials, producing frameworks to reduce best practice patterns to application for use in production efforts.Define architectural and micro-architectural details for features that improve security and manufacturability of our GPUs.Drive implementation and verification of hardware features that improve security and manufacturability of our GPUs.What we need to see:A Masters degree or equivalent experience in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering.8+ years of relevant hardware development experience with a focus and interest in hardware security.Deep understanding of silicon manufacturing flows including fusing, wafer sort, system test, etc.Functional understanding of cryptography and digital certificates.Proficiency in Verilog RTL coding and scripting languages, such as: Perl, Python and Make etc. is a plus.Strong communication skills are required along with the ability to work in a dynamic product oriented team.Ways to stand out from the crowd:Familiarity with kernel level security concepts.Experience with security testing techniques, threat modeling, fuzzing, negative testing and other techniques.Background with manufacturing attacks.Experience with HW level applications of cryptography; secure boot, key management, etc.NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world's most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us. Are you creative and autonomous? Do you love the challenge of crafting the securest silicon possible? If so, we want to hear from you. Come, join our ASIC Security team and help build the real-time, cost-effective computing platform driving our success across several exciting and quickly growing fields.The base salary range is $178,000 - $365,000. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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