The role:
Openchip is building new RISC-V chips with security at heart, enabling safer and more privacy-respectful execution of data processing workloads like AI models.
As a Staff Security Software Engineer, you will lead a team designing and implementing security features across Openchip’s software stack: from low-level platform firmware to integrations with AI and Cloud runtimes. You will also contribute to hardware/software co-design, providing requirements and identifying potential IPs, as well as engage with the wider security community.

Key responsibilities:
• Understand the technical landscape of their project and make decisions about it.
• Make independent technical contributions, especially for the most foundational or challenging parts of the project.
– Develop and maintain security features for novel and existing hardware architectures (RISC-V and others).
– Implement secure boot, confidential computing, cryptography, and other platform security features.
– Define new interfaces and modify existing ones to expose security features to user applications. When possible,



identify and leverage existing standard ones.
• Interact with engineers and leads from their and other teams to unblock issues, or to reach consensus on technical topics. In particular:
– Work with firmware and operating systems teams, incorporating security features into low-level and platform software.
– Work with middleware teams, exposing security features to user applications and/or hardening frame-works.
– Work with hardware teams, providing requirements for security and influencing hardware/software co-design.
• Provide technical guidance to more junior team members, also acting as a mentor.
• Review team artifacts (design documents, code changes) both for correctness but also for code quality and consistency.
• Identify opportunities for code and/or process improvement.
• Loop in directors and above as needed, for instance to surface potential risks or get feedback based on area-lev

📌 Staff Security Software Engineer (Barcelona)
🏢 Openchip And Software Technologies
📍 Barcelona