Principal RISC-V Security & Virtualization Engineer

Qualcomm; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 212,000 - 318,000; Full time

Job summary

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

You will drive architecture decisions, enable hardware features, and ensure compliance with RISC‑V standards across hypervisor extensions, SBI, RPMI, CoVE, and supervisor domains. This hands‑on technical leader will collaborate with hardware and software teams to enable silicon and emulation platform stacks,

Qualifications

• 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.
• 4+ years of work experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to architecture and development of security, virtualization, confidential compute and trusted execution features.
• Drive upstream contributions to the OpenSBI, KVM and Linux kernel, ensuring long-term maintainability and community alignment.
• Collaborate with hardware and platform teams to enable security, virtualization confidential compute, and trusted execution features.
• Collaborate with hardware engineers to enable software stack on silicon and emulation platforms, debug hardware-software interactions, and ensure seamless integration.
• Guide the integration of compliance test suites for confidential compute and trusted execution features.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Linux

Open source

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering/CS

Master’s degree in engineering/CS

PhD in engineering/CS

Tools

Git/GitHub

Linux kernel

KVM

Job description

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

You will drive architecture decisions, enable hardware features, and ensure compliance with RISC‑V standards across hypervisor extensions, SBI, RPMI, CoVE, and supervisor domains. This hands‑on technical leader will collaborate with hardware and software teams to enable silicon and emulation platform stacks,