Senior Designer
HCLTech
Senior Designer
About this role
Job Summary
Pod 6 — Linux — Senior Engineer
Pod / Track Pod 6 — Linux
Role Title Senior Engineer — Linux Kernel & BSP
Experience 5 – 8 years
Primary Location Hyderabad, India (Transition phase); HCLTech Offshore Delivery Center thereafter
Work Model Physical co-location at Hyderabad mandatory during Transition (Month 1–3) for knowledge transfer and hardware/lab access; delivery shifts to HCLTech's Offshore Delivery Center (ODC) from Shadow (Month 4–6) onward.
Role Summary
Execute Linux kernel and BSP sustenance tasks, reporting to the Pod Lead.
Key Responsibilities
• Implement kernel, device-tree and BSP fixes.
• Support HLOS boot hand-off validation and kernel-level boot-time/memory performance tuning.
• Support kernel version upgrade cycles across platform releases.
• Prepare and submit patches to kernel.org/vendor Linux trees for Lead review.
• Triage kernel panics and crash dumps.
• Support the kernel security-patch cadence and CVE response process.
Must-Have Skills
• 5–8 years Linux kernel engineering.
• Linux kernel internals.
• Device tree authoring.
• Upstream kernel contribution process (kernel.org).
• Kernel debugging (kdump/crash).
• Security patch triage and CVE response.
• Yocto/OpenEmbedded HLOS build experience; boot-time and memory performance profiling.
Good-to-Have Skills
• Upstream kernel.org maintainership or a significant patch history.
• Yocto/OpenEmbedded layer maintenance.
• Real-time kernel (PREEMPT_RT) experience.
• Embedded security-patching automation tooling.
• OTA update integration experience at the kernel/HLOS layer.
Key Responsibilities
Pod 6 — Linux — Senior Engineer
Pod / Track Pod 6 — Linux
Role Title Senior Engineer — Linux Kernel & BSP
Experience 5 – 8 years
Primary Location Hyderabad, India (Transition phase); HCLTech Offshore Delivery Center thereafter
Work Model Physical co-location at Hyderabad mandatory during Transition (Month 1–3) for knowledge transfer and hardware/lab access; delivery shifts to HCLTech's Offshore Delivery Center (ODC) from Shadow (Month 4–6) onward.
Role Summary
Execute Linux kernel and BSP sustenance tasks, reporting to the Pod Lead.
Key Responsibilities
• Implement kernel, device-tree and BSP fixes.
• Support HLOS boot hand-off validation and kernel-level boot-time/memory performance tuning.
• Support kernel version upgrade cycles across platform releases.
• Prepare and submit patches to kernel.org/vendor Linux trees for Lead review.
• Triage kernel panics and crash dumps.
• Support the kernel security-patch cadence and CVE response process.
Must-Have Skills
• 5–8 years Linux kernel engineering.
• Linux kernel internals.
• Device tree authoring.
• Upstream kernel contribution process (kernel.org).
• Kernel debugging (kdump/crash).
• Security patch triage and CVE response.
• Yocto/OpenEmbedded HLOS build experience; boot-time and memory performance profiling.
Good-to-Have Skills
• Upstream kernel.org maintainership or a significant patch history.
• Yocto/OpenEmbedded layer maintenance.
• Real-time kernel (PREEMPT_RT) experience.
• Embedded security-patching automation tooling.
• OTA update integration experience at the kernel/HLOS layer.
Skill Requirements
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Senior Designer
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