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Penetration Tester
Company | NVIDIA |
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Location | Santa Clara, CA, USA |
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Salary | $184000 – $287500 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of practical offensive security or red teaming experience, including a consistent track record of impactful findings or public vulnerabilities.
- Strong interpersonal and partner leadership skills — able to establish rapport and maintain trust while delivering difficult messages.
- An attitude passionate about progress and demonstrated success in adapting to new, challenging situations.
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code, CI/CD tooling, or environments like Kubernetes and Terraform.
- A collaborative, consultative approach grounded in service, emotional intelligence, and technical rigor.
Responsibilities
- Perform open-box penetration testing and adversarial assessments across diverse environments, including APIs, cloud infrastructure, automation pipelines, and custom platforms.
- Engage cross-functional product teams to define scope, set expectations, and collaboratively schedule assessments.
- Assess risk and prioritize testing based on asset criticality, exposure, and business impact — helping teams understand trade-offs when resources are limited.
- Drive communication around assessment pipeline and capacity, using clear messaging across verbal, visual, and written formats.
- Lead and participate in threat modeling sessions and scenario-based tabletop exercises that inform secure design and architecture decisions.
- Deliver actionable findings, technical recommendations, and remediation guidance tailored to a wide variety of audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
- Deep expertise in Burp Suite or prior experience as a Red Team operator.
- Research contributions, CVEs, or published work in the security space.
- Relevant personal projects, GitHub activity, conference talks, or blog content that demonstrate a passion for offensive security.
- Advanced certifications such as OSWE, OSEP, or similar.