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 hardening, CHERI,

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