RISC-V Security & Virtualization Lead Engineer

Qualcomm; United States; On-site; USD 212,000 - 318,000; Full time

Job summary

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

You will drive architecture decisions and collaborate across hardware and software teams to enable secure platforms. You will influence standard alignment (RISC‑V) and upstream contributions, while ensuring integration with silicon, emulation, and software stacks.

Qualifications

• 18+ years of experience in Linux KVM or Linux kernel or TEE development.
• Good understanding in virtualization, confidential compute and trusted execution environments.
• Strong debugging skills using tools like ftrace, perf, kgdb, crash, kernel logs and hardware debuggers.
• Good experience with Git, GitHub or GitLab.

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

Linux KVM / Linux kernel

Virtualization

Confidential compute

TEE

C/C++/Java/Python

Git

GitHub

GitLab

Docker

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Master's degree in engineering

PhD in engineering

Tools

OpenSBI

KVM

Linux kernel

Job description

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

You will drive architecture decisions and collaborate across hardware and software teams to enable secure platforms. You will influence standard alignment (RISC‑V) and upstream contributions, while ensuring integration with silicon, emulation, and software stacks.