Senior Confidential Computing & Virtualization Engineer

OPENCHIP & SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive compensation package

Barcelona-based role

Job summary

Openchip & Software Technologies S.L. in Barcelona seeks a Confidential Computing & Virtualization Senior Engineer to design secure platform technologies across the software stack, enabling trusted execution and secure workload isolation.

You'll design TEEs, remote attestation, and secure provisioning for confidential workloads, and collaborate with firmware, OS teams and hardware architects to drive co-design for next-generation secure platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in systems software, platform security, virtualization, or related engineering field.
• Strong understanding of computer architecture, CPUs, cache/memory hierarchy, buses, and system interactions.
• Solid understanding of Linux kernel internals and pre-boot/boot process.
• Strong programming skills in C and Rust.
• Experience with Git, CI pipelines, and development tools such as Jira.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop Confidential Computing and virtualization technologies across the platform software stack, enabling trusted execution and secure workload isolation.
• Design and implement Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), remote attestation, and secure provisioning mechanisms for confidential workloads.
• Develop and validate secure communication and isolation mechanisms between hosts, virtual machines, and hardware accelerators, enabling trusted offloading of sensitive workloads.
• Collaborate with firmware and operating systems teams to integrate Confidential Computing technologies and TEEs across the platform software stack.
• Partner with hardware architects to define security requirements and drive hardware/software co-design for next-generation secure platforms, virtualization technologies, and trusted accelerator architectures.
• Participate in technical discussions, architecture reviews, and design decisions across multiple engineering teams, and contribute to code reviews and documentation.

Skills

Confidential Computing

Virtualization

Linux kernel

C

Rust

Git

CI pipelines

Jira

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/CE

Tools

Git

CI pipelines

Jira

Job description

Openchip & Software Technologies S.L. in Barcelona seeks a Confidential Computing & Virtualization Senior Engineer to design secure platform technologies across the software stack, enabling trusted execution and secure workload isolation.

You'll design TEEs, remote attestation, and secure provisioning for confidential workloads, and collaborate with firmware, OS teams and hardware architects to drive co-design for next-generation secure platforms.