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Principal Engineer – CPU Hardware Telemetry & Silicon Security

Job in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, 19113, USA
Listing for: Cyble
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-10-30
Job specializations:
  • Engineering
    Hardware Engineer, Cybersecurity, Systems Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 180000 - 240000 USD Yearly USD 180000.00 240000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Principal Engineer – CPU Hardware Telemetry & Silicon Security

Cyble is an AI-native cybersecurity company building the next generation of autonomous cyber defense. Our products combine threat intelligence, endpoint security, exposure management, and AI-powered detection and response to protect enterprises and governments globally.

We are investing in a new frontier of endpoint protection:
using processor-level hardware telemetry to detect malicious behavior at the silicon level.

As part of our Cyble Titan EDR initiative, we are building capabilities that leverage modern CPU architectures, hardware performance monitoring, and advanced machine learning to identify ransomware, malware, exploitation, and other sophisticated threats with high accuracy and minimal system overhead.

We are looking for an exceptional engineer to help build the foundation of this technology.

The Role

We are seeking a Principal Engineer specializing in CPU Hardware Telemetry and Low-Level Systems Engineering to design, develop, and optimize telemetry collection capabilities across modern Intel and AMD processors.

You will work at the intersection of CPU microarchitecture, operating systems, security engineering, and machine learning.

Your primary responsibility will be to develop production-grade technologies that reliably extract, normalize, and analyze hardware-level execution signals for real-time threat detection.

This is a deeply technical, hands-on engineering role with the opportunity to influence the architecture of an emerging category of hardware-assisted cybersecurity.

Key Responsibilities
1. CPU Hardware Telemetry Engineering
  • Design and implement high-performance telemetry collection using CPU Performance Monitoring Units (PMUs).
  • Work with hardware performance counters (HPCs), architectural and model-specific events, and low-level processor instrumentation.
  • Intel Performance Monitoring Counters (PMCs)
  • Intel Processor Trace (Intel PT)
  • Intel Last Branch Records (L )
  • AMD Instruction-Based Sampling (IBS)
  • AMD Performance Monitoring Counters
  • Model-Specific Registers (MSRs)
  • Identify and characterize hardware events relevant to malware execution, ransomware, privilege escalation, exploitation, and other suspicious behaviors.
  • Implement adaptive sampling, counter multiplexing, and efficient collection across CPU generations.
2. Kernel-Level and Systems Engineering
  • Develop low-level telemetry collectors for Windows and Linux operating systems.
  • Implement kernel-mode components, drivers, and privileged user-space services where appropriate.
  • Work with Linux , eBPF, Windows kernel interfaces, and native operating-system profiling capabilities.
  • Optimize sampling frequency, latency, CPU utilization, memory consumption, and system stability.
  • Ensure telemetry collection operates safely in production without materially affecting endpoint performance.
  • Design robust handling for processor-specific differences, unsupported events, permissions, and firmware configurations.
3. Hardware-Assisted Threat Detection
  • Collaborate with security researchers and machine learning engineers to transform raw hardware telemetry into actionable behavioral signals.
  • Investigate how CPU execution patterns, branch behavior, cache activity, instruction retirement, and memory-access characteristics can help distinguish benign activity from malicious execution.
  • Evaluate signal robustness against workload changes, environmental noise, and adversarial evasion.
  • Help establish measurable detection accuracy, false-positive rates, and performance benchmarks.
4. CPU Architecture and Virtualization
  • Build a deep understanding of AMD and Intel processor microarchitectures and their hardware event models.
  • Evaluate telemetry fidelity across processor generations and operating environments.
  • Investigate differences between bare-metal and virtualized environments, including counter availability, sampling behavior, and measurement distortion.
  • Develop methods for validating and calibrating hardware telemetry across different hardware configurations.
  • Work with engineering and ecosystem partners on hardware compatibility, performance optimization, and deployment readiness.
5. Production Engineering
  • Build scalable, fault-tolerant telemetry collection components suitable for deployment across enterprise endpoints.
  • Develop benchmarking, validation, profiling, and diagnostic tools.
  • Maintain comprehensive testing across different CPUs, operating systems, and workload profiles.
  • Collaborate with Cyble Titan engineering teams to integrate…
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