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Penetration Tester

Penetration Tester

CompanyNVIDIA
LocationSanta Clara, CA, USA
Salary$184000 – $287500
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s
Experience LevelSenior, Expert or higher

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.