Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
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Nvidia is quietly assembling a new AI safety and security engineering team, according to a cluster of job listings posted late last month.The company is hiring a distinguished engineer to serve as a "founding technical leader" for the "newly assembled team," as well as a security research engineer, an evaluation engineer, and a senior manager. The team will evaluate AI agents before they're deployed and build AI-powered tools to patch software vulnerabilities, according to the job listings.The hiring suggests Nvidia is making AI safety a bigger priority as it bets on a future shaped by open-weight models and AI agents. Open-weight models make their trained "weights" — which determine how they behave — publicly available, even if their training data and source code stay private.The team is described in one listing as "rooted in the firm belief that open-weight models, transparency, and broad scientific scrutiny are foundational to American AI leadership and cybersecurity defense."Nvidia did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.In recent months, Nvidia has steadily elevated its public messaging around open-weight AI models, which stand in contrast to the closed systems built by companies like OpenAI and Anthropic.In his first post on X last month, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang shared a letter urging US policymakers to support open models, saying that they "strengthen safety and cybersecurity."
