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In this role you will partner with firmware, hardware, and architecture teams on the security architecture, to reduce risk, threats, and vulnerabilities while driving new security features that affect millions of devices all over the world!\nWhat you'll be doing:\nBe involved in the security architecture of NVIDIA Networking firmware - trust boundaries, privilege separation between firmware domains, device identity and key storage, secure boot and chain of trust, and secure update and anti-rollback flows.\n\nPerform security threat modeling of firmware and embedded subsystems across NVIDIA Networking products.\n\nAnalyze complex firmware and hardware/firmware interactions to identify security weaknesses, including boot flows, privileged execution environments, and host- and network-facing management interfaces.\n\nDefine security features and mitigations spanning the full device lifecycle - provisioning, attestation, debug authorization, runtime hardening, and field update. Guide the engineering teams throughout the implementation.\n\nTranslate threat models into actionable security requirements and architectural decisions, and review designs and implementations against them.\n\nPartner with hardware and ASIC architects to specify the security primitives firmware depends on, and define how they are used across the product line.\n\nDrive secure development practices for firmware - memory-safe coding patterns in C, static analysis, and fuzzing of firmware-exposed interfaces - and make sure development processes meet security and coding standards.\n\nWhat we need to see:\nAcademic degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field. 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