SoC Security & Root-of-Trust Architect - Austin, Texas, USA | Portland, Oregon, United States
This role owns the hardware root of trust for our RISC-V compute silicon.
About the role
This role involves end-to-end ownership of the hardware root of trust for RISC-V compute silicon, from architecture selection to customer defense. The role's decisions determine if the silicon qualifies for customers requiring an open, attestable root of trust.
What you'll do
- Own the hardware root of trust for RISC-V compute silicon end to end - Select the root-of-trust architecture - Specify SoC requirements to support the root of trust - Defend the architecture in front of customers - Act as the security voice in the architecture team - Engage directly with customers regarding architectural ownership
What you'll need
- Experience with hardware root of trust - Experience with RISC-V compute silicon - Experience with SoC architecture - Ability to specify SoC requirements for security - Experience defending architecture in front of customers - Understanding of open, attestable root of trust requirements
Skills: hardware root of trust, RISC-V, SoC, architecture, security
This role has been open 33 days — well below the 65-day median for Hardware Security Engineering roles.
Hardware Security Engineering · Hardware Security
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Open roles in category
178
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Median days open
65 d
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Median salary
$224k
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| Metric | Ahead Computing | All employers we track in this specialty (178 roles · 42 employers) |
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| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 178 |
| Median days open | 33 d | 65 d (−32 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $224k |
Skills observed across this category: hardware root of trust, RISC-V, SoC, architecture, security
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 31 open roles · median 41 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 23 open roles · median 96 d
- Qualcomm · 17 open roles · median 131 d
- Arm Holdings · 13 open roles · median 111 d
- AMD · 8 open roles · median 67 d
- STMicroelectronics · 8 open roles · median 29 d
How we counted: 178 open Hardware Security Engineering (Hardware Security) roles from 42 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 27 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.