Senior Designer
Hyderabad, Telangana
Job Summary
Pod 2 — Coretech — Senior Engineer
Pod / Track Pod 2 — Coretech
Role Title Senior Engineer — Core Platform Software (Bootloader, Power Management & Kernel Core)
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 core platform software sustenance tasks — bootloader, power management and core kernel work — reporting to the Pod Lead.
Key Responsibilities
- Implement and validate fixes for bootloader, power management, clock/regulator and core kernel defects.
- Implement fixes for peripheral driver, memory driver, and DSP/NPU firmware defects within the SoC infrastructure layer.
- Debug SoC bring-up issues, power sequencing failures, and core driver regressions.
- Execute BSP core-layer validation against current chipset/firmware releases.
- Support customer escalations requiring core platform expertise.
Must-Have Skills
- 5–8 years SoC bring-up or core platform software engineering.
- C, ARM architecture fundamentals.
- Linux kernel core subsystems.
- Power management frameworks (RPM/RPMh, clock/regulator).
- Bootloader development.
- JTAG / hardware debugger tooling.
- Non-HLOS/RTOS firmware and SoC infrastructure experience — peripheral drivers, memory drivers, DSP/NPU firmware.
Good-to-Have Skills
- Hypervisor/virtualization exposure (Xen, Gunyah or equivalent).
- Upstream Linux kernel contribution history.
- Functional-safety or industrial temperature-range product experience.
- Bring-up experience across more than one SoC family/generation.
- Exposure to multiple firmware toolchains across DSP/NPU subsystems beyond the main applications processor.
Key Responsibilities
Pod 2 — Coretech — Senior Engineer
Pod / Track Pod 2 — Coretech
Role Title Senior Engineer — Core Platform Software (Bootloader, Power Management & Kernel Core)
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 core platform software sustenance tasks — bootloader, power management and core kernel work — reporting to the Pod Lead.
Key Responsibilities
- Implement and validate fixes for bootloader, power management, clock/regulator and core kernel defects.
- Implement fixes for peripheral driver, memory driver, and DSP/NPU firmware defects within the SoC infrastructure layer.
- Debug SoC bring-up issues, power sequencing failures, and core driver regressions.
- Execute BSP core-layer validation against new chipset/firmware releases.
- Support customer escalations requiring core platform expertise.
Must-Have Skills
- 5–8 years SoC bring-up or core platform software engineering.
- C, ARM architecture fundamentals.
- Linux kernel core subsystems.
- Power management frameworks (RPM/RPMh, clock/regulator).
- Bootloader development.
- JTAG / hardware debugger tooling.
- Non-HLOS/RTOS firmware and SoC infrastructure experience — peripheral drivers, memory drivers, DSP/NPU firmware.
Good-to-Have Skills
- Hypervisor/virtualization exposure (Xen, Gunyah or equivalent).
- Upstream Linux kernel contribution history.
- Functional-safety or industrial temperature-range product experience.
- Bring-up experience across more than one SoC family/generation.
- Exposure to multiple firmware toolchains across DSP/NPU subsystems beyond the main applications processor.
Skill Requirements
Other Requirements
📌 Senior Designer (India)
🏢 HCLTech
📍 India