Senior Technical Architect

HCLTech · Hyderabad

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Last observed by our collector: 8 October 2026 at 11:30 pm IST. This is not a manual review or a confirmation from the employer.

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Collected role description

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. Skill Requirements Other Requirements

Collected experience requirement

8-10 years