Intellectual Property Security Engineer
NVIDIAJob Title
Intellectual Property Security Engineer
Role Summary
Join NVIDIA's Hardware IP Security team to protect company intellectual property by designing secure workflows, policies, and controls for hardware engineering environments. This is a hands-on contributor role that balances technical delivery, policy development, training, and cross-team collaboration.
Experience Level
Senior — requires 8+ years of relevant experience.
Responsibilities
The role focuses on preventing misuse of hardware IP, enabling secure engineering practices, and responding to threats affecting security infrastructure.
- Design and implement secure-by-default workflows and environments for hardware and IP engineering teams.
- Create training materials and documentation to operationalize security policies and standards.
- Develop and enforce security policies, controls, and methodologies for IP protection.
- Perform threat modeling and risk assessment for data flows, trust boundaries, and design workflows.
- Investigate security incidents and newly discovered threats related to hardware IP and engineering infrastructure.
- Collaborate with Security, Hardware Engineering, and IT partners to improve practices and reduce productivity impact.
- Set priorities, plan schedules, and drive cross-functional initiatives to completion.
Requirements
Core technical and leadership capabilities required for immediate contribution.
Must have:- Proven experience leading technical teams or initiatives in hardware engineering and/or information security.
- Strong threat-modeling skills (data flows, trust boundaries, STRIDE-style analysis) and ability to convert findings into mitigations.
- Experience securing Linux-based on-premises or cloud infrastructure at scale, including authentication, authorization, hardening, patching, logging, and incident response.
- Ability to prioritize practical risk-reduction measures in fast-moving engineering environments.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills; comfortable presenting risk and mitigation plans to senior management.
- Experience securing AI-assisted developer workflows (connected CLIs, agent permissions, prompt injection, data leakage controls).
- Experience with security monitoring, audit logging, detection engineering, and investigation of suspicious activity.
- Familiarity with EDA workflows, semiconductor design environments, or other large-scale engineering/HPC environments.
Education Requirements
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the Company
Company: NVIDIA
Headquarters: Santa Clara, California, USA
NVIDIA is a global leader in accelerated computing, renowned for its innovative solutions in AI and digital twins that transform diverse industries. The company specializes in networking technologies, providing end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet solutions for servers and storage that optimize performance and scalability. NVIDIA serves sectors such as high-performance computing, enterprise data centers, and cloud computing, constantly reinventing its products and services to stay ahead in the market.
