Senior Group Technical Architect

Job Summary

Pod 6 — Linux — Lead
Pod / Track    Pod 6 — Linux
Role Title    Lead — Linux Kernel & BSP
Experience    8 – 10 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
Own Linux kernel and BSP sustenance — version upgrades, device-tree maintenance, upstream kernel.org contribution, and kernel driver defect resolution across the platform.
Key Responsibilities
•    Sustain the kernel, device tree, and board support package.
•    Own the HLOS boot hand-off from the bootloader/Coretech layer through kernel initialization.
•    Tune kernel-level performance — memory footprint and boot-time optimization — and support OTA integration at the kernel/HLOS layer.
•    Manage kernel version upgrade cycles across platform releases.
•    Upstream patches to kernel.org and vendor Linux trees, aligned with the platform's upstream-first open-source direction.
•    Triage kernel panics and crash dumps.
•    Maintain the kernel security-patch cadence and CVE response process.
•    Mentor the pod's Senior Engineers on kernel debugging and upstream contribution practice.
Must-Have Skills
•    8–10 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 — Lead
Pod / Track    Pod 6 — Linux
Role Title    Lead — Linux Kernel & BSP
Experience    8 – 10 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
Own Linux kernel and BSP sustenance — version upgrades, device-tree maintenance, upstream kernel.org contribution, and kernel driver defect resolution across the platform.
Key Responsibilities
•    Sustain the kernel, device tree, and board support package.
•    Own the HLOS boot hand-off from the bootloader/Coretech layer through kernel initialization.
•    Tune kernel-level performance — memory footprint and boot-time optimization — and support OTA integration at the kernel/HLOS layer.
•    Manage kernel version upgrade cycles across platform releases.
•    Upstream patches to kernel.org and vendor Linux trees, aligned with the platform's upstream-first open-source direction.
•    Triage kernel panics and crash dumps.
•    Maintain the kernel security-patch cadence and CVE response process.
•    Mentor the pod's Senior Engineers on kernel debugging and upstream contribution practice.
Must-Have Skills
•    8–10 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.

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