Systems Security and Privacy Engineer @ Rivos

We are working on software, firmware and hardware to evolve the RISC-V ecosystem and build secure-by-design RISC-V based systems.

The security and privacy team has the charter to define security requirements for the hardware teams and software teams. We are responsible for providing secure designs for RISC-V as we bring our product vision to life. As a systems security engineer on our team, you will develop software and firmware for a high-performance RISC-V-based System to ensure security and privacy requirements are met.

Positions are open for full-time systems security engineers in the areas of software hardening, formal verification, security analysis of HW/SW interfaces and micro-architecture, penetration analysis for security-sensitive sub-systems, Compilers and application hacking.

You will be learning technical and organizational skills from industry veterans: how to write performant and readable code; how to structure and communicate projects, ideas, and progress; how to work effectively with the Open Source community.

We are big proponents of Open Source software and contribute back our improvements to all the great projects we use.

Responsibilities

Developing simulator models, compiler extensions and PoCs involving OS/hypervisor changes for security extensions.
Review and contribute to specifications for future ISA and hardware to build security evaluation mechanisms.
Support validation, hackathon teams with security-oriented tasks
Implementing support for software PoCs related to security standards within PCIe, CXL, DMTF, TCG etc.
Debug system security issues with limited visibility, working in conjunction with firmware and kernel developers.

Requirements

Experience in security analysis of software and hardware interfaces. Ability to comprehend complex software (e.g., operating systems, distributed systems).
Demonstrated ability to develop original security research directions.
Assembly/C/C++ experience; Rust experience is not necessary, but a plus.
Strong system SW fundamentals, including knowledge of multi-processor systems, caching and virtual memory.
Familiarity with low-level hardware interfaces, register and interrupt programming, bare-metal software development.
Experience with compilers (e.g. LLVM) and/or with FW, OS, hypervisors is a plus.
Experience with RISC-V and Domain-specific architectures is a plus but not required.
Excellent skills in problem solving, written and verbal communication, excellent organization skills, and highly self-motivated.
Ability to work well in a team and be productive under aggressive schedules.

Education and Experience

PhD, Master’s Degree or Bachelor’s Degree in technical subject area.

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