RISC-V Security & Virtualization Engineer

Qualcomm; Santa Clara, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 212,000 - 318,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA, seeks a Principal Engineer to lead security, virtualization, confidential compute and trusted execution environment features for next-generation Qualcomm SoCs.

You will define architectures, enable hardware-software integration, and drive upstream contributions to OpenSBI, KVM and the Linux kernel, while collaborating with hardware teams to ensure robust, compliant implementations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• Master’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 7+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• 6+ 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 OpenSBI, KVM and Linux kernel.
• Collaborate with hardware and platform teams to enable security, virtualization confidential compute, and trusted execution features.
• Guide the integration of compliance test suites for confidential compute and trusted execution features.

Skills

Linux kernel

C/C++/Python

Debugging tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Master's degree in Engineering or related field

PhD in Engineering or related field

Tools

Git/GitHub/GitLab

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA, seeks a Principal Engineer to lead security, virtualization, confidential compute and trusted execution environment features for next-generation Qualcomm SoCs.

You will define architectures, enable hardware-software integration, and drive upstream contributions to OpenSBI, KVM and the Linux kernel, while collaborating with hardware teams to ensure robust, compliant implementations.