Senior Designer

Hyderabad, Telangana

Job Summary

Pod 1 — Multimedia — Senior Engineer
Pod / Track Pod 1 — Multimedia
Role Title Senior Engineer — Multimedia Platform (Audio, Video, Display, Graphics, Camera & Sensors/DSP)
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 day-to-day sustenance work across the multimedia stack — audio, video, display, graphics, camera and sensors/DSP — in the sub-discipline(s) assigned, reporting to the Pod Lead.
Key Responsibilities

- Implement and validate fixes for customer-reported and internal defects in the assigned sub-discipline (audio, video, display, graphics, camera ISP or sensors/DSP).
- Support the camera-to-compute image pipeline (sensor ISP compute) and the video post-processing chain in the assigned sub-discipline.
- Perform root-cause analysis using kernel logs, ADSP/DSP core dumps, and multimedia framework traces.
- Execute release validation against reference test suites and customer use-cases.
- Maintain multimedia HAL/driver code for the assigned sub-discipline across firmware/driver updates.
- Contribute findings to the pod knowledge base and RCA repository.

Must-Have Skills

- 5–8 years embedded multimedia / Linux BSP engineering, in one or more of audio, video, display, graphics, camera or sensor/DSP.
- Strong C/C++ and Linux kernel driver debugging.
- V4L2 / DRM / ALSA subsystems.
- Camera ISP tuning tools and CamX/Chi-CDK architecture.
- Video codec standards (H.264/H.265/AV1)



and hardware codec pipelines.
- Adreno GPU driver stack, OpenGL ES/Vulkan.
- Hexagon DSP fundamentals; JTAG and kernel crash-dump analysis.
- Video post-processing pipeline development (scaling, colour conversion, filtering).

Positive-to-Have Skills

- Multi-camera synchronization and multi-stream concurrency experience.
- AI/ML inference pipeline integration with zero-copy buffer sharing to an NPU.
- GStreamer pipeline development.
- HDR, tone-mapping and colour-science exposure.
- Direct experience with Chromatix or equivalent tuning tools.
- Camera-to-compute pipeline integration experience with downstream AI/vision consumers.

Key Responsibilities

Pod 1 — Multimedia — Senior Engineer
Pod / Track Pod 1 — Multimedia
Role Title Senior Engineer — Multimedia Platform (Audio, Video, Display, Graphics, Camera & Sensors/DSP)
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 day-to-day sustenance work across the multimedia stack — audio, video, display, graphics, camera and sensors/DSP — in the sub-discipline(s) assigned, reporting to the Pod Lead.




Key Responsibilities

- Implement and validate fixes for customer-reported and internal defects in the assigned sub-discipline (audio, video, display, graphics, camera ISP or sensors/DSP).
- Support the camera-to-compute image pipeline (sensor ISP compute) and the video post-processing chain in the assigned sub-discipline.
- Perform root-cause analysis using kernel logs, ADSP/DSP core dumps, and multimedia framework traces.
- Execute release validation against reference test suites and customer use-cases.
- Maintain multimedia HAL/driver code for the assigned sub-discipline across firmware/driver updates.
- Contribute findings to the pod knowledge base and RCA repository.

Must-Have Skills

- 5–8 years embedded multimedia / Linux BSP engineering, in one or more of audio, video, display, graphics, camera or sensor/DSP.
- Strong C/C++ and Linux kernel driver debugging.
- V4L2 / DRM / ALSA subsystems.
- Camera ISP tuning tools and CamX/Chi-CDK architecture.
- Video codec standards (H.264/H.265/AV1) and hardware codec pipelines.
- Adreno GPU driver stack, OpenGL ES/Vulkan.
- Hexagon DSP fundamentals; JTAG and kernel crash-dump analysis.
- Video post-processing pipeline development (scaling, colour conversion, filtering).

Good-to-Have Skills

- Multi-camera synchronization and multi-stream concurrency experience.
- AI/ML inference pipeline integration with zero-copy buffer sharing to an NPU.
- GStreamer pipeline development.
- HDR, tone-mapping and colour-science exposure.
- Direct experience with Chromatix or equivalent tuning tools.
- Camera-to-compute pipeline integration experience with downstream AI/vision consumers.

Skill Requirements

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