Senior Technical Architect

Job Summary

Pod 5 — IMSDK/Frameworks — Lead
Pod / Track    Pod 5 — IMSDK/Frameworks
Role Title    Lead — IM SDK & Multimedia Frameworks (GStreamer)
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 sustenance of the IM SDK and higher-level application framework/API layers exposed to customer application developers on IoT platforms. This is a single-position pod — the Lead has no dedicated bench.
Key Responsibilities
•    Maintain and extend the GStreamer-based multimedia framework layer that sits above the multimedia HAL, ensuring compatibility with customer application requirements.
•    Triage framework-layer defects in GStreamer plugins/pipelines reported by customer application developers.
•    Support customer developer escalations directly.
•    Document framework/API changes and deprecations ahead of each release.
•    Coordinate framework updates with the underlying HAL/system-software pods (SSG, Multimedia).
Must-Have Skills
•    8–10 years multimedia framework / GStreamer engineering, sitting above a multimedia HAL.
•    GStreamer pipeline architecture, plugin development and debugging.
•    Experience building an SDK/framework layer directly above a multimedia HAL.
•    API design and versioning discipline for a customer-facing SDK.
•    Strong customer-facing communication.
Good-to-Have Skills
•    Prior IM SDK or comparable vendor SDK experience.
•    Experience with comparable frameworks (e.g., Android Media Framework, FFmpeg) as points of comparison to GStreamer.
•    Developer-relations or SDK documentation authorship.
•    Exposure to partner/OEM app-developer support processes.
 

Key Responsibilities

Pod 5 — IMSDK/Frameworks — Lead
Pod / Track    Pod 5 — IMSDK/Frameworks
Role Title    Lead — IM SDK & Multimedia Frameworks (GStreamer)
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 sustenance of the IM SDK and higher-level application framework/API layers exposed to customer application developers on IoT platforms. This is a single-position pod — the Lead has no dedicated bench.
Key Responsibilities
•    Maintain and extend the GStreamer-based multimedia framework layer that sits above the multimedia HAL, ensuring compatibility with customer application requirements.
•    Triage framework-layer defects in GStreamer plugins/pipelines reported by customer application developers.
•    Support customer developer escalations directly.
•    Document framework/API changes and deprecations ahead of each release.
•    Coordinate framework updates with the underlying HAL/system-software pods (SSG, Multimedia).
Must-Have Skills
•    8–10 years multimedia framework / GStreamer engineering, sitting above a multimedia HAL.
•    GStreamer pipeline architecture, plugin development and debugging.
•    Experience building an SDK/framework layer directly above a multimedia HAL.
•    API design and versioning discipline for a customer-facing SDK.
•    Strong customer-facing communication.
Good-to-Have Skills
•    Prior IM SDK or comparable vendor SDK experience.
•    Experience with comparable frameworks (e.g., Android Media Framework, FFmpeg) as points of comparison to GStreamer.
•    Developer-relations or SDK documentation authorship.
•    Exposure to partner/OEM app-developer support processes.
 

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