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 Junior Security Software Engineer, you will design and implement 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
- Make independent technical contributions to help their team deliver its commitments. In particular:
- 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 colleagues across projects 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 frameworks.
- Collaborate with colleagues through code reviews, bug triaging, design documents, etc.
- Contribute to shared team responsibilities (CI failure triaging, documentation, code fixits, rotations, etc.).

Required Qualifications
- Bachelor or Master’s degree in a relevant field.
- Experience in the relevant field (1-3yr).
- Solid knowledge about computer architecture (CPU, cache and memory hierarchy, buses, ...).
- Knowledge about at least two of the following areas:
- Confidential computing technologies (RISC-V CoVE, Intel SGX, Intel TDX, AMD SEV, confidential containers).
- Platform security features (kernel/firmware h

📌 Junior Security Software Engineer (Barcelona)
🏢 Openchip & Software Technologies
📍 Barcelona