Principal RISC-V Security & Virtualization Engineer

Qualcomm; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 212,000 - 318,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the design and development of security, virtualization, confidential compute and TEE features for next‑gen Qualcomm SoCs.

You will bridge hardware and software, shaping architecture and enabling new hardware features in line with RISC‑V standards. You will define architecture, drive upstream contributions to OpenSBI, KVM and Linux, and collaborate across hardware and platform teams to ensure robust, scalable solutions with

Qualifications

• 18+ years of experience in Linux KVM or Linux kernel or TEE development.
• Strong understanding of virtualization and trusted execution environments.
• Proficient debugging with ftrace, perf, kgdb, crash and kernel logs.
• Experience with Git, GitHub or GitLab.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop security, virtualization, confidential compute and TEE features.
• Drive upstream contributions to OpenSBI, KVM and Linux kernel.
• Collaborate with hardware and platform teams to enable security and virtualized features.
• Work with silicon and emulation platforms to debug HW-SW interactions.
• Guide integration of compliance test suites for confidential compute and TEEs.

Skills

Linux KVM

Linux kernel

Virtualization

Confidential compute

Trusted execution environments

RISC-V

OpenSBI

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field

Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field

PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

Git/GitHub/GitLab

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the design and development of security, virtualization, confidential compute and TEE features for next‑gen Qualcomm SoCs.

You will bridge hardware and software, shaping architecture and enabling new hardware features in line with RISC‑V standards. You will define architecture, drive upstream contributions to OpenSBI, KVM and Linux, and collaborate across hardware and platform teams to ensure robust, scalable solutions with