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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.<\/p>\n

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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\u00a0manager. The team will evaluate AI agents before they’re deployed and build AI-powered tools to patch software vulnerabilities, according to the job listings.<\/p>\n

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” \u2014 which determine how they behave \u2014 publicly available, even if their training data and source code stay private.<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

Nvidia did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.<\/p>\n

Nvidia’s case for open models<\/h2>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

Days later, Nvidia announced it had become a founding member of the Open Secure AI Alliance \u2014 a group building open-source security tools for AI. The job listings for the chipmaker’s AI safety team appeared prior to this announcement and describe many of the same responsibilities.<\/p>\n

The alliance includes 120 companies, such as Microsoft, Palantir, SpaceX, and Hugging Face, which recently relied on an open model to respond to a high-profile security incident.<\/p>\n

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While critics say open models are more accessible to bad actors, proponents say they bolster innovation through competition and improve security through transparency and collective action.<\/p>\n

AI safety sells<\/h2>\n

The push toward open models and AI security isn’t just philosophical; it reflects key business incentives for Nvidia.<\/p>\n

Open models put AI into the hands of far more customers, in turn creating more demand for Nvidia’s AI chips needed to power it.<\/p>\n

Safety is also critical as Nvidia pushes for broader business adoption of AI, and companies weigh how best to deploy it.<\/p>\n

As AI shifts from chatbots to agents that can access sensitive company data and take real-world actions, trust could become the linchpin for widespread adoption.<\/p>\n

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